1 Department of Pulmonary and Intensive Care Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam Correspondence to: ...

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D E O’Donnell Division of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 2 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 3 Department of Histology ...

1 Clinical Trials Research Unit, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 3 Department of Medicine, The University of ...

National Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Mr J van Ingen, National Institute for Public Health and the ...

Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...

A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...

1 Department of General Practice, Division of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...

Introduction Oral health is an important aspect of general health and well-being. Studies confirm a significant link between poor oral health and the risk of developing community acquired pneumonia ...

Correspondence to Dr Marco Sperandeo, Unit of Interventional Ultrasound of Internal Medicine, “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza” Hospital, IRCCS, Viale dei Cappuccini snc, San Giovanni Rotondo, FG 71013 ...

3 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Correspondence to Dr Pierre Ernst, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, ...