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 ...

Objectives Infliximab, an anti-TNF agent, is used to treat sarcoidosis that does not respond to corticosteroids or second-line agents. The efficacy of other anti-TNF agents, non-TNF biologics and ...

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; ...

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

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, ...

17 Academic Respiratory Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Professor Nick A Maskell, Academic Respiratory Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of ...

BACKGROUND Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have many risk factors for reduced bone mineral density (BMD). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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