1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, and AIDS, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical ...
BACKGROUND Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has recently re-emerged as a surgical option for the treatment of end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to underlying severe ...
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Background We aimed to disentangle genetic and environmental causes in lung cancer while considering smoking status. Methods Four Nordic twin cohorts (43 512 monozygotic (MZ) and 71 895 same sex ...
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung condition with poor survival times. We previously published a genome-wide meta-analysis of IPF risk across three studies with independent ...
Background Life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis (CF) varies considerably both within and between countries. The objective of this study was to compare survival among countries with ...
1 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Bath, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, ...
Background Overexpression of the transforming growth factor β family signalling molecule smad2 in the airway epithelium provokes enhanced allergen-induced airway remodelling in mice, concomitant with ...
Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...
1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash University Medical School, Melbourne 3181, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash ...