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Association between maternal asthma and impaired infant lung function is diminished by inhaled corticosteroid use in pregnancy

Background Infants of asthmatic mothers have reduced lung function in early life for reasons that remain to be defined. The association between inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) use during pregnancy and ...
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Comparative safety of inhaled medications in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis of randomised ...

3 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to Dr Mei-Shu Lai, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public ...
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Opt-out tobacco dependency treatment for inpatients: confronting entrenched inequalities but under threat

The substantial burden of disease, poverty and early mortality executed by tobacco smoking falls heaviest on those in society already suffering some of the greatest disadvantage and represents the ...
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Neutrophils and tissue damage: is hypoxia the key to excessive degranulation?

Correspondence to Professor Rachel C Chambers, Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Repair, Division of Medicine, University College London, London WC1E 6JF, UK; r.chambers{at}ucl.ac.uk ...
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Statin treatment is associated with a decreased risk of active tuberculosis: an analysis of a nationally representative cohort

Correspondence to Dr Chien-Chang Lee, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, No. 579, Yunlin Road, Douliou 640, Taiwan; cclee100{at}gmail.com Background ...
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Diaphragm ultrasound as a predictor of successful extubation from mechanical ventilation

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and Brown University, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA Correspondence to Dr F Dennis McCool, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode ...
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Written action plans for asthma: an evidence-based review of the key components

Hunter Medical Research Institute, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Dr P G Gibson Hunter Medical Research Institute, ...
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Nocturnal non-invasive ventilation in COPD patients with prolonged hypercapnia after ventilatory support for acute respiratory failure: a randomised, controlled, parallel-group ...

2 Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to F M Struik, Department of ...
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Treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with the addition of co-trimoxazole: a randomised controlled trial

2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Bedford, UK 3 Respiratory Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, CUHNHSFT ...
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Inhaled mannitol for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis: a randomised, controlled trial

10 Hospital Interzonal Especializado en Agudos y Cronicos "Dr Antonio A. Cetrangolo”, Partido de Vicente Lopez Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Rationale Bronchiectasis is ...
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Air pollution associated with incidence and progression trajectory of chronic lung diseases: a population-based cohort study

Correspondence to Dr Hualiang Lin, Department of Epidemiology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China; linhualiang{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Professor Yunfeng Zou, ...
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The overlap syndrome of asthma and COPD: what are its features and how important is it?

1 Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia Professor P ...