Objective Asthma and type 2 diabetes are two important causes of morbidity globally. We examined both the association of type ...

Introduction Current bronchiectasis guidelines advise against the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) except in patients with associated asthma, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and/or ...

Antileukotriene drugs are new therapeutic agents that have recently been approved for the treatment of asthma. Several cases of eosinophilic conditions including Churg-Strauss syndrome have been ...

2 Department of Experimental Medicine, Human Physiology Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 3 Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Skeletal muscles are ...

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Background Management of solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) depends critically on the pre-test probability of malignancy. Several quantitative prediction models have been developed using clinical and ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life limiting genetic condition which occurs due to mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (CFTR). Absence of functional CFTR ...

Correspondence to Dr Chuan Tai Foo, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; chuantai.foo{at}gmail.com ...

3 Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China Background Dyslipidaemia is an intermediary exacerbation factor for various ...

3 Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical Physiopathology University of Florence, Italy Correspondence to: Professor Mario Mascalchi Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical ...