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Quality of dying and death in patients with interstitial lung disease compared with lung cancer: an observational study

Takafumi Koyauchi, Yuzo Suzuki, Kazuki Sato, Hironao Hozumi, Masato Karayama, Kazuki Furuhashi, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Noriyuki Enomoto, Yutaro Nakamura, Naoki Inui, Koshi Yokomura, Shiro Imokawa, Hidenori Nakamura, Tatsuya Morita, Takafumi Suda

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215917

December 9, 2020

Persistent symptoms 1.5–6 months after COVID-19 in non-hospitalised subjects: a population-based cohort study

Knut Stavem, Waleed Ghanima, Magnus Kringstad Olsen, Hanne Margrethe Gilboe, Gunnar Einvik

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216377

December 3, 2020

Hormonal contraception and the risk of severe asthma exacerbation: 17-year population-based cohort study

Bright I Nwaru, Holly Tibble, Syed A Shah, Rebecca Pillinger, Susannah McLean, Dermot P Ryan, Hilary Critchley, David B Price, Catherine M Hawrylowicz, Colin R Simpson, Ireneous N Soyiri, Francis Appiagyei, Aziz Sheikh

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215540

November 23, 2020

Sputum microbiota in adults with CF associates with response to inhaled tobramycin

Alya Heirali, Christina Thornton, Nicole Acosta, Ranjani Somayaji, Isabelle Laforest Lapointe, Douglas Storey, Harvey Rabin, Barbara Waddell, Laura Rossi, Marie Claire Arrieta, Michael Surette, Michael D Parkins

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214191

November 2, 2020

Long-term survival following initiation of home non-invasive ventilation: a European study

Maxime Patout, Elodie Lhuillier, Georgios Kaltsakas, Amira Benattia, Johan Dupuis, Gill Arbane, Pierre-Louis Declercq, Michelle Ramsay, Philip Marino, Luis-Carlos Molano, Elise Artaud-Macari, Catherine Viacroze, Joerg Steier, Abdel Douiri, Jean-Francois Muir, Antoine Cuvelier, Patrick Brian Murphy, Nicholas Hart

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214204

September 7, 2020

Serum free testosterone and asthma, asthma hospitalisations and lung function in British adults

Yueh-Ying Han, Qi Yan, Ge Yang, Wei Chen, Erick Forno, Juan Carlos Celedon

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214875

August 31, 2020

Maintenance tobramycin primarily affects untargeted bacteria in the CF sputum microbiome

Maria T Nelson, Daniel J Wolter, Alexander Eng, Eli J Weiss, Anh T Vo, Mitchell J Brittnacher, Hillary S Hayden, Sumedha Ravishankar, Gilbert Bautista, Anina Ratjen, Marcella Blackledge, Sharon McNamara, Laura Nay, Cheryl Majors, Samuel I Miller, Elhanan Borenstein, Richard H Simon, John J LiPuma, Luke R Hoffman

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214187

July 6, 2020

Tablet and web-based audiometry to screen for hearing loss in adults with cystic fibrosis

Anitha Vijayasingam, Emily Frost, Julie Wilkins, Lise Gillen, Presanna Premachandra, Kate Mclaren, Desmond Gilmartin, Lorenzo Picinali, Alberto Vidal-Diez, Simone Borsci, Melody Zhifang Ni, Wai Y Tang, Deborah Morris-Rosendahl, Jonny Harcourt, Caroline Elston, N J Simmonds, Anand Shah

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214177

May 14, 2020

Oral nitrate supplementation to enhance pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: ON-EPIC a multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised parallel group study

Matthew J Pavitt, Rebecca Jayne Tanner, Adam Lewis, Sara Buttery, Bhavin Mehta, Helen Jefford, Katrina J Curtis, Winston A S Banya, Syed Husain, Karnan Satkunam, Dinesh Shrikrishna, William Man, Michael I Polkey, Nicholas S Hopkinson

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214278

May 6, 2020

Energy conservation technique improves dyspnoea when patients with severe COPD climb stairs: a randomised crossover study

Guillaume Prieur, Yann Combret, Clement Medrinal, Nathalie Arnol, Tristan Bonnevie, Francis-Edouard Gravier, Jean Quieffin, Bouchra Lamia, Gregory Reychler, Jean-Christian Borel

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214295

March 26, 2020