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Mobile instant messaging supported brief physical exercise intervention for smoking cessation: a community-based, cluster randomised controlled trial

Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...
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Identification of distinct gene and miRNA expression profiles in severe early-onset COPD providing novel insights in disease pathogenesis

Objective Severe early-onset-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (SEO-COPD) represents the most severe form of COPD that ...
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Mesothelioma risk after 40 years since first exposure to asbestos: a pooled analysis

1 School of Public Health, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia 2 School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia Background The risk of malignant ...
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Association between overuse of short-acting β2-agonists and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with asthma ...
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COPD exacerbations · 1: Epidemiology

The epidemiology of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is reviewed with particular reference to the definition, frequency, time course, natural history and seasonality, and ...
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British Thoracic Society guideline for diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy in adults: accredited by NICE

3 The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK 4 University Hospital of South Manchester, ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of focused deep venous, lung, cardiac and multiorgan ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To determine the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL and ...
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Nasal high flow oxygen therapy in patients with COPD reduces respiratory rate and tissue carbon dioxide while increasing tidal and end-expiratory lung volumes: a randomised ...

Correspondence to Amanda Corley, Critical Care Research Group, Level 5 CSB, The Prince Charles Hospital, Rode Rd, Chermside, Brisbane, QLD 4032, Australia; amanda.corley{at}health.qld.gov.au The ...
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Recommendations for the assessment and management of cough in children

Department of Child Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Clinical Institute, Belfast, UK All children experience head colds and many consult their doctor because of associated coughing.1 Cough with ...
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Changes in right heart haemodynamics and echocardiographic function in an advanced phenotype of pulmonary hypertension and right heart dysfunction associated with pulmonary ...

2 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...
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Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations in severe asthma (AZISAST): a multicentre randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial

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, ...
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Elastic parametric response mapping: quantitative CT scoring for local COPD severity

Background Current quantitative chest CT techniques improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phenotyping but do not capture spatial variability and potentially reversible disease in local ...