Background: A systematic review was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of tiotropium, a long acting anticholinergic drug, on clinical events, symptom scales, pulmonary function, and adverse events in ...

Professor T K Lim, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074; mdclimtk{at}nus.edu.sg ...

BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young children, which is ...

4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr D Breen, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW ...

Background: A limited or absent bronchodilator response is used to classify chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and can determine the treatment offered. The reliability of the recommended ...

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 900 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA Dr D B ...

1 Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong 2 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong ...

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Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by the presence of airflow limitation caused by loss of lung elasticity and/or airway narrowing. The pathological hallmark of ...

Oxford Children's Hospital, The John Radcliffe, Headington, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Anne Thomson, Oxford Children's Hospital, The John Radcliffe, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; ...

Correspondence to Professor Claire L Shovlin, Professor of Practice (Clinical and Molecular Medicine), NHLI Vascular Science, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and ...