Methods TRIVERSYTI is an ongoing phase III multi-centre (China, South Korea and Taiwan), randomized, parallel group trial comparing a 24-week treatment with (BDP/FF/GB) 100/6/12.5 µg pMDI, 2 puffs bid ...

A pillar of the WHO End TB Strategy is targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing to identify persons who would benefit from TB preventive treatment (TPT).1 The WHO recommends the ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation has established itself as a vital and core therapy for people with chronic lung disease. Significant improvements are seen in several patient outcomes, for the thousands ...

Background and objectives IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a multi-system fibro-inflammatory disorder originally described in association with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), usually but not always in ...

Method Adults with a first-recorded code for breathlessness (index date) and subsequent coded diagnosis between 2007 and 2017 were included from a UK primary care database (CPRD-GOLD). Cox regression ...

Introduction Despite improvements in pulmonary function, physical activity (PA) levels remain significantly lower than the general population, even at 1 year following lung transplantation (LTx).

Introduction Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) affects a significant proportion of people with severe asthma (SA). Despite the effectiveness of anti-IL5/5R therapies in the ...

Introduction The benefits achieved during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) are known to decline 6–12 months after the initial programme. There is no consensus on the best maintenance strategy.1 Previous ...

Background Smoking has been considered an important risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) incidence. However, there are no population-based large-scale studies demonstrating the effects ...

Introduction We delivered a one-year weight management programme (Counterweight Plus, CWP) in participants with difficult-to-treat asthma and obesity in a single-centre randomised controlled trial ...

Results Data for 7135 patients included in the audit in England were extracted. Overall admission rates (proportion with at least one admission) were18.6% and 29.6% at 90 and 180 days respectively. At ...

Introduction Better patient selection for non-invasive ventilation (NIV), and time to NIV initiation, are national improvement objectives.1Treatment escalation planning (TEP) was also identified ...