Background Social media may influence children and young people’s health behaviour, including cigarette and e-cigarette use. Methods We analysed data from participants aged 10–25 years in the UK ...

Background The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into critical care offers significant potential to enhance early ...

The National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chris Kosmidis, ...

3 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Jennifer K Quint, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College ...

Background Tobacco smoking is a leading behavioural risk factor for death in the UK, contributing to deaths from cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and common infectious diseases. 1 ...

Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with ...

Dynamic lung volumes (forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 0·5 second and in 1·0 second), static lung volumes (total lung capacity, functional residual capacity, residual volume), and ...

9 Institute for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany Background The impact of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on survival in patients ...

Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...

Background Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is the most severe long-term complication of acute pulmonary embolism (PE). We aimed to evaluate the impact of a symptom screening ...

Background Estimation of the clinical probability of malignancy in patients with pulmonary nodules will facilitate early diagnosis, determine optimum patient management strategies and reduce overall ...

Climate change is altering ecosystems worldwide. While shifting environmental conditions are complex, it has been hypothesised that the impact of climate change is directly leading to increases in ...