BACKGROUND The potential for long term adverse effects from inhaled corticosteroids relates to their systemic absorption, usually assessed from proxy markers in short term studies. When fluticasone ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Good Hope Hospital, Heart of England NHS Trust, Sutton Coldfield, UK Correspondence to Dr A Ali, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Good Hope Hospital, Heart of ...

Oxford Children's Hospital, The John Radcliffe, Headington, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Anne Thomson, Oxford Children's Hospital, The John Radcliffe, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; ...

BACKGROUND The adverse effects of oral corticosteroids are widely recognised but there are few quantitative data on which to base advice to patients. In a two part cross sectional study we compared ...

Background The Global Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2011 revision recommends the multidimensional assessment of COPD including comorbidities and has developed a ...

Clinical Research Unit at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany Professor R Bals, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonology, ...

Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9 Dr N L Müller, Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of ...

Departments of Respiratory Medicine and Immunology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK Correspondence to: Professor N C Thomson, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 ...

Correspondence to Robert A Stockley, Lung Investigation Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; rob.stockley{at}uhb.nhs.uk Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is ...

Respiratory Department of Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), University of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain ...

3 The Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK 4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK 5 Respiratory Medicine Unit, ...

Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Dr A M W J Schols, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and ...