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Background The bronchial epithelium and underlying reticular basement membrane (RBM) have a close spatial and functional inter-relationship and are considered an epithelial–mesenchymal trophic unit ...

Correspondence to: A O C Johnson, Department of General and Respiratory Medicine, Pontefract General Infirmary, Pontefract WF8 1PL, UK; owen.johnson{at}panp-tr.northy.nhs.uk For most passengers, even ...

BACKGROUND The relation of parental smoking to wheezing and asthma occurring after the first year of life was assessed by a systematic quantitative review of case-control and longitudinal studies, ...

Department of Pediatrics, Montréal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada Correspondence to: Dr R T Brouillette Department of Pediatrics, Montréal Children’s Hospital, 2300 ...

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 ...

3 Center for Oral Health Services and Research Mid-Norway (TkMidt), Trondheim, Norway Correspondence to Dr Xiao-Mei Mai, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and ...

8 Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, and Imperial College, London, UK 9 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK Correspondence ...

1 Institute for Lung Health, Department of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK 2 Department of Integrated Medicine, University Hospitals ...

Dr J Simon R Gibbs, National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Department of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK; s.gibbs{at}imperial.ac.uk I am delighted to write the ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK 2 School of Medicine Health Policy & Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Correspondence to Dr ...

3 Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Correspondence to Dr Stefano Guerra, Arizona Respiratory Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, ...