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Brief communications

• Increasing incidence of asbestosis worldwide, 1990–2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2017 (28 May, 2020) Free

  Meng Yang, Dongming Wang, Shiming Gan, Lieyang Fan, Man Cheng, Linling Yu, Bin Wang, Wei Li, Jixuan Ma, Min Zhou, Weihong Chen
• Skeletal muscle adiposity and outcomes in candidates for lung transplantation: a lung transplant body composition cohort study (1 June, 2020) Free

  Michaela R Anderson, Imaani Easthausen, Grace Gallagher, Jayaram Udupa, Yubing Tong, Drew Torigian, Joshua Matthew Diamond, Mary Katherine Porteous, Scott M Palmer, Laurie D Snyder, Luke Benvenuto, Meghan Aversa, Selim Arcasoy, John R Greenland, Steven R Hays, Jasleen Kukreja, Edward Cantu, John Shinn Kim, Dympna Gallagher, Matthew R Baldwin, R Graham Barr, David J Lederer, Jason D Christie, Jonathan Paul Singer
• Reliability of methods to estimate the fraction of inspired oxygen in patients with acute respiratory failure breathing through non-rebreather reservoir bag oxygen mask (10 June, 2020) Free

  Rémi Coudroy, Jean-Pierre Frat, Christophe Girault, Arnaud W Thille
• Tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) and receptors in type 1, type 2 and type 17 inflammation in cross-sectional asthma study (1 June, 2020)

  Michelle Marks, Chad Steele, Wendy C Moore, Deborah A Meyers, Brian Rector, Elizabeth Ampleford, Eugene R Bleecker, Annette T Hastie