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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (13 July, 2018) Free
The Triumvirate

Editorials

Uric acid, lung function and COPD: a causal link is unlikely (23 March, 2018)
Seif O Shaheen
Selective tumour necrosis factor receptor-1 inhibition in acute lung injury: a new hope or a false dawn? (22 March, 2018)
Pratik Sinha, Lorraine B Ware
Trends in tuberculosis in the UK (19 April, 2018)
Philippe Glaziou, Katherine Floyd, Mario Raviglione
Inequalities in asthma mortality: a specific case of a general issue of health inequalities (14 May, 2018)
Michael Marmot

Asthma

Original article: Persistent variations in national asthma mortality, hospital admissions and prevalence by socioeconomic status and region in England (14 May, 2018)
Ramyani P Gupta, Mome Mukherjee, Aziz Sheikh, David P Strachan

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Home treatment of COPD exacerbation selected by DECAF score: a non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation (21 April, 2018)
Carlos Echevarria, Joanne Gray, Tom Hartley, John Steer, Jonathan Miller, A John Simpson, G John Gibson, Stephen C Bourke

Critical care

Original article: Novel anti-tumour necrosis factor receptor-1 (TNFR1) domain antibody prevents pulmonary inflammation in experimental acute lung injury (29 January, 2018)
Alastair Proudfoot, Andrew Bayliffe, Cecilia M O’Kane, Tracey Wright, Adrian Serone, Philippe Jean Bareille, Vanessa Brown, Umar I Hamid, Younan Chen, Robert Wilson, Joanna Cordy, Peter Morley, Ruud de Wildt, Stuart Elborn, Matthew Hind, Edwin R Chilvers, Mark Griffiths, Charlotte Summers, Daniel Francis McAuley

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Data from the US and UK cystic fibrosis registries support disease modification by CFTR modulation with ivacaftor (10 May, 2018)
Leona Bessonova, Nataliya Volkova, Mark Higgins, Leif Bengtsson, Simon Tian, Christopher Simard, Michael W Konstan, Gregory S Sawicki, Ase Sewall, Stephen Nyangoma, Alexander Elbert, Bruce C Marshall, Diana Bilton

Lung cancer

Original article: Characteristics of new solid nodules detected in incidence screening rounds of low-dose CT lung cancer screening: the NELSON study (16 April, 2018)
Joan E Walter, Marjolein A Heuvelmans, Geertruida H de Bock, Uraujh Yousaf-Khan, Harry J M Groen, Carlijn M van der Aalst, Kristiaan Nackaerts, Peter M A van Ooijen, Harry J de Koning, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Matthijs Oudkerk

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Plasma urate, lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a Mendelian randomisation study in 114 979 individuals from the general population (29 November, 2017) Free
Camilla J Kobylecki, Signe Vedel-Krogh, Shoaib Afzal, Sune F Nielsen, Børge G Nordestgaard

Respiratory research

Original article: Airway epithelial phosphoinositide 3-kinase-δ contributes to the modulation of fungi-induced innate immune response (5 April, 2018)
Jae Seok Jeong, Kyung Bae Lee, So Ri Kim, Dong Im Kim, Hae Jin Park, Hern-Ku Lee, Hyung Jin Kim, Seong Ho Cho, Narasaiah Kolliputi, Soon Ha Kim, Yong Chul Lee

Tuberculosis

Original article: Reduction in tuberculosis incidence in the UK from 2011 to 2015: a population-based study (19 April, 2018) Free
H Lucy Thomas, Ross J Harris, Morris C Muzyamba, Jennifer A Davidson, Maeve K Lalor, Colin N J Campbell, Sarah R Anderson, Dominik Zenner

Research letters

Reference values for oxygen saturation from sea level to the highest human habitation in the Andes in acclimatised persons (20 October, 2017)
Jose Rojas-Camayo, Christian Richard Mejia, David Callacondo, Jennifer A Dawson, Margarita Posso, Cesar Alberto Galvan, Nadia Davila-Arango, Erick Anibal Bravo, Viky Yanina Loescher, Magaly Milagros Padilla-Deza, Nora Rojas-Valero, Gary Velasquez-Chavez, Jose Clemente, Guisela Alva-Lozada, Angel Quispe-Mauricio, Silvana Bardalez, Rami Subhi
Disagreement of diameter and volume measurements for pulmonary nodule size estimation in CT lung cancer screening (22 October, 2017)
Marjolein A Heuvelmans, Joan E Walter, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Peter M A van Ooijen, Geertruida H De Bock, Harry J de Koning, Matthijs Oudkerk
Duration of the efficacy of omalizumab after treatment discontinuation in ‘real life’ severe asthma (27 October, 2017)
Maria del Carmen Vennera, Carlos Sabadell, Cesar Picado
High prevalence of TB disease in contacts of adults with extrapulmonary TB (16 November, 2017)
Tom Wingfield, Peter MacPherson, Paul Cleary, L Peter Ormerod

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: Case of paediatric neuromuscular disease with a surprising clinical outcome: time to challenge the dogma? (30 January, 2018)
Marie Wright, Adnan Manzur, Andy Bush

Images in Thorax

Images in Thorax: Oleothorax (29 January, 2018)
Till Plönes, Clemens Aigner
Images in Thorax: All that wheezes is not asthma (21 March, 2018)
Pyng Lee, Ze-Ying Tan, Thanh Pham

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What’s hot that the other lot got (13 July, 2018)
Janice Ward

PostScript

Correction: Identifying patients at risk for severe exacerbations of asthma: development and external validation of a multivariable prediction model
(13 July, 2018)

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August 2018 - Volume 73 - 8

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Lung cancer

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Tuberculosis

Research letters

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Images in Thorax

Journal club summaries

PostScript

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August 2018 - Volume 73 - 8

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Lung cancer

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Tuberculosis

Research letters

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Images in Thorax

Journal club summaries

PostScript

Issue Information