Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...

6 Imperial College NHS Trust and NHLI, Imperial College, London, UK Background Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves exercise capacity and health status in patients with COPD, but many patients ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, OLV Ziekenhuis, Aalst, Belgium 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, AZ Groeninge, ...

Surveillance systems at the population level are of crucial importance to track diseases and detect trends over time. Among other benefits, these tools allow us to understand the distribution of ...

Rationale Several randomised controlled trials support the provision of early pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) following hospitalisation for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

1 Technical University of Munich ZIEL - Institute for Food and Health, Freising, Germany 6 German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Borstel, Germany To examine the ...

1 Service de Pneumologie and UPRES EA 2511, Université René Descartes, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France 2 Laboratoire d’Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, ...

Rationale/Objectives Despite plausible pathophysiological mechanisms, research is needed to confirm the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythm and delirium in patients admitted to the intensive ...

Background: Caffeine is known to inhibit phosphodiesterases, to mobilise intracellular calcium, and to act as an antagonist at adenosine receptors, all of which can potentially alter nitric oxide (NO) ...

Background It is unknown if adults born <28 weeks or <1000 g since surfactant has been available are reaching their full airway growth potential. Objective To compare expiratory airflow at 25 years ...

Introduction Integrating smoking cessation supports into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, healthcare decision-makers need evidence of cost-effectiveness to understand the ...

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