BMJ Open Respiratory Research: 12 (1)

Asthma

Does the airway circulation influence airflow obstruction in asthma? (17 April, 2025)
Adam Wanner
Psychosocial experience of living with severe and uncontrolled asthma as a young adult: a qualitative synthesis (22 March, 2025)
Leanne-Jo Holmes, Siobhan Ludlow, Stephen Fowler, Marie Marshall, Karina Lovell
Effectiveness of inhaled therapies in asthma among adults in Northern Sri Lanka, a low-income and middle-income country: a prospective observational study (27 February, 2025)
Yalini Guruparan, Thiyahiny S Navaratinaraja, Gowry Selvaratnam, Shalini Sri Ranganathan
Effects of biologic therapy on novel indices of lung inhomogeneity in patients with severe type-2 high asthma (8 February, 2025)
Asma Alamoudi, Lorenzo Petralia, Nicholas M J Smith, Haopeng Xu, Dominic Sandhu, Graham Richmond, Nick P Talbot, Grant AD Ritchie, Ian Pavord, Peter A Robbins, Nayia Petousi
Qualitative study of patients experiences and perceptions of stepping down asthma medication in primary care across England (3 February, 2025)
Chloe I Bloom, Jack Middleton, Adam Lewis
Association between chronic respiratory diseases and frailty in Chinese elderly: a population-based longitudinal study (2 January, 2025)
Dan Guo, Ke Huang, Xiaolong Guan, Ruoxi Ding, Dawei Zhu, Yanan Zhao, Ting Yang, Ping He

Bronchiectasis

Retrospective cross-sectional study on bronchiectasis in adult Aboriginal Australians: disease characteristics and comparison with ethnically diverse global bronchiectasis registry cohorts (21 January, 2025)
Subash Heraganahally, Claire Gibbs, Shiidheshwar J Ravichandran, Davaadorj Erdenebayar, Winnie Chen, Asanga Abeyaratne, Hubertus Jersmann, Lata Jayaram, Timothy Howarth

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Assessment of the right ventricular strain, left ventricular strain and left atrial strain using speckle tracking echocardiography in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (6 March, 2025)
Hai Nguyen Ngoc Dang, Thang Viet Luong, Nhi Thi Y Nguyen, Hung Khanh Tran, Hieu Thi Nguyen Tran, Hung Minh Vu, Thanh Van Ho, Ngoc Thi Minh Vo, Thanh Thien Tran, Toan Song Do, Van Thi Thuy Phan, Tien Anh Hoang, Phuoc Le Huu, Binh Anh Ho, Hung Minh Nguyen
Characterising airway inflammation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults with asthma and COPD (22 February, 2025)
Nick Young, Winnie Chen, Shimul Chatterjee, Scott Gelzinnis, Aishath Lam’aan Latheef, Jodie Simpson, Peter A B Wark
COVID-19 and risk of long-term mortality in COPD: a nationwide population-based cohort study (17 February, 2025)
Hyun Lee, Sang Hyuk Kim, Cho Yun Jeong, Jee-Eun Chung, Youlim Kim, Kyung Hoon Min, Kwang Ha Yoo, Jong Seung Kim, Ji-Yong Moon
Twelve barriers to COPD diagnosis in France: a comparative qualitative study (22 January, 2025)
Guillaume Roucoux, Elisabetta Scanferla, Mathieu Delorme, Laurie Fraticelli, Lize Kiakouama Maleka, Cécilia Nocent-Ejnaini, Annaig Ozier, Maxime Patout, Olivier Le Rouzic, Maéva Zysman
Protocol for the enhanced management of multimorbid patients with COPD and severe asthma: role of indoor air quality (20 January, 2025)
Alba Gómez-López, Ebymar Arismendi, Isaac Cano, Ramón Farre, María Figols, Carme Hernández, Antonio Montilla-Ibarra, Núria Sánchez-Ruano, Benigno Sánchez, Antoni Sisó-Almirall, Marta Sorribes, Emili Vela, Jordi Piera-Jiménez, Jaume Benavent, Jose Fermoso, Josep Roca, Rubèn González-Colom
Cluster randomised controlled trial on the effects of long-term home-based exercise for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with recent exacerbation: research protocol of the COPDtoParis Project
(19 January, 2025)
Anna Lei Stoustrup, Lars Pilegaard Thomsen, Jane Andreasen, Thorvaldur S Palsson, Ulla Møller Weinreich
Home high-flow therapy during recovery from severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation: a mixed-methods feasibility randomised control trial (6 January, 2025)
Rebecca F D'Cruz, Anne Rossel, Georgios Kaltsakas, Eui-Sik Suh, Abdel Douiri, Louise Rose, Patrick B Murphy, Nicholas Hart

Critical care

Regional comparison of efficacy and safety for vilobelimab in critically ill, invasively mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients (17 April, 2025)
Endry H T Lim, Diederik van de Beek, Sanne de Bruin, Simon Rückinger, Claus Thielert, Renfeng Guo, Bruce P Burnett, Matthijs C Brouwer, Robert Zerbib, Camilla Chong, Niels C Riedemann, Alexander P Vlaar
Metabolic cost of physical rehabilitation in mechanically ventilated patients in critical care: an observational study (5 April, 2025)
Timothy O Jenkins, Dan Stieper Karbing, Stephen Edward Rees, Mathias Krogh Poulsen, Brijesh V Patel, Michael I Polkey, Vicky MacBean
Early versus late tracheostomy in critically ill patients: an umbrella review of systematic reviews of randomised clinical trials with meta-analyses and trial sequential analysis (5 April, 2025)
Aline Boni, Tiago Antonio Tonietto, Marcos Frata Rihl, Marina Verçoza Viana
Effects of Hyperoxia on Pulmonary Inflammation and organ injury in a human in vivo model (HIPI): study protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
(12 February, 2025)
Dermot Linden, Delia Dorrian, Shikha Tandel, Michael McKelvey, Melanie Bailey, John Conlon, David Moore, Sharon Carr, Clifford C Taggart, Judy M Bradley, Joseph Kidney, Cecilia M OKane, Daniel Francis McAuley

Cystic fibrosis

Understanding beliefs about elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor therapy in adults living with cystic fibrosis (31 March, 2025)
Catherine O’Leary, Alec Vinh, Mari Lea-Davies, John Weinman, Rob Horne, Jamie Duckers
Psychosocial and mental health in cystic fibrosis in the modern era of care: time to evolve (10 February, 2025)
Maggie Harrigan, Anna M Georgiopoulos, Alexandra L Quittner, Beth Smith, Tonia A Douglas
Qualitative study exploring the views and perceptions of parents/carers of young children with CF regarding the introduction of CFTR modulator therapy (The REVEAL study; PaRents pErspectiVEs of KAftrio in chiLdren aged 2–5) (30 January, 2025)
Sioned Haf Davies, Faye Wade, Heather Fogg, Adam Walsh, Kevin W Southern
Protease-activated receptor 1 in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (19 January, 2025)
Sohinee Sarkar, Jia-Xi Han, Kristy Azzopardi, Poshmaal Dhar, Muhammad A Saeed, Sophie Day, Sarath Ranganathan, Philip Sutton

Interstitial lung disease

Early nintedanib deployment in COVID-19 interstitial lung disease (ENDCOV-I): study protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (10 April, 2025)
Valeria Santibanez, Aditi Mathur, Jigna Zatakia, Nicole Ng, Michele Cohen, Emilia Bagiella, Stacey-Ann Brown, Ivan O Rosas, Nina M Patel, Amy Olson, Peide Li, Maria Padilla
Complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): a feasibility, wait-list design randomised controlled trial (22 March, 2025)
Michael George Crooks, Caroline Wright, Simon Hart, Victoria Allgar, Anne English, Flavia Swan, Judith Dyson, Gerry Richardson, Maureen Twiddy, Judith Cohen, Andrew Simpson, Chao Huang, Dominic L Sykes, Miriam Johnson
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the UK: findings from the British Thoracic Society UK Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Registry (19 February, 2025)
Ahmed Fahim, Maria Loughenbury, Iain Stewart, Sarah Agnew, Howard Almond, Leo Casimo, Nazia Chaudhuri, Sophie V Fletcher, Sarah Haney, Ling-Pei Ho, Clare Hodkinson, Paul Minnis, Evelyn Palmer, Andrew M Wilson
Role of IPF genetic risk loci in post-COVID-19 lung abnormalities: a cohort study (19 January, 2025)
Daniel-Costin Marinescu, Alyson W Wong, Aditi Shah, Cameron J Hague, Darra Murphy, Julia Yang, James Johnston, Janice Leung, Christopher Carlsten, Christopher J Ryerson

Lung cancer

Uptake and 4-week outcomes of an ‘opt-out’ smoking cessation referral strategy in a London-based lung cancer screening setting (6 February, 2025)
Amyn Bhamani, Evangelos Katsampouris, Fanta Bojang, Priyam Verghese, Andrew Creamer, Ruth Prendecki, Chuen R Khaw, Jennifer L Dickson, Carolyn Horst, Sophie Tisi, Helen Hall, John McCabe, Kylie Gyertson, Anne-Marie Hacker, Laura Farrelly, Neal Navani, Allan Hackshaw, The SUMMIT Consortium, Samuel M Janes, Samantha L Quaife

Lung transplantation

Tacrolimus versus cyclosporine immunosuppression in lung transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis (10 April, 2025)
Tyler Pitre, Samuel Gurupatham, Kairavi Desai, Matthew Binnie, Tereza Martinu, Stephen Juvet, Dena Zeraatkar

Pleural disease

Pleural procedural safety in the UK: is everyone’s house in order? Reflections from the BTS National Pleural Service Organisational Audit and a national review of patient safety incidents (2 March, 2025)
Andrew Ewing Stanton, Mark Juniper, Eihab Bedawi, Laura McNaughton, Amelia O Clive, Duneesha De Fonseka, Avinash Aujayeb, Matthew Evison

Paediatric lung disease

Changes in respiratory viruses in infancy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a prospective cohort study (26 March, 2025)
Ruth Steinberg, Simone Troxler, Léa Ho Dac, Anne-Christianne Kentgens, Xenia Bovermann, Christoph Aebi, Urs Frey, Pascal Bittel, Philipp Agyeman, Philipp Latzin, Insa Korten

Pulmonary vasculature

Medication adherence and clinical outcome in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension or distal chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (5 April, 2025)
Lena Reimann, Helga Preiss, Julian Müller, Pascale Huber, Laura Mayer, David Langleben, Silvia Ulrich, Mona Lichtblau

Perspective

Under the weather: an epidemic thunderstorm asthma event in Leicester, June 2023 (17 April, 2025)
Sarah Diver, Fiona Symon, Jack Satchwell, Heather Lipscombe, Ruth H Green, Gerrit Woltmann, Damian Roland, Erol A Gaillard, Anna Hansell, Chris Brightling, Leah Cuthbertson

Tuberculosis

Real-world clinical utility of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra in the assessment of tuberculosis in a low-TB-incidence, high-resource setting (19 January, 2025)
Jee Whang Kim, Hemu Patel, Richard Halliwell, Robert C Free, Alison Glimour-Caunt, Manish Pareek, Gerrit Woltmann, Raman Verma, Nelun Perera, Pranabashis Haldar

Respiratory epidemiology

Protection conferred by SARS-CoV-2 infection across a spectrum of reinfection symptoms and severities (26 March, 2025)
Layan Sukik, Hiam Chemaitelly, Houssein H Ayoub, Peter Coyle, Patrick Tang, Mohammad R Hasan, Hadi M Yassine, Asmaa A Al Thani, Zaina Al-Kanaani, Einas Al-Kuwari, Andrew Jeremijenko, Anvar Hassan Kaleeckal, Ali Nizar Latif, Riyazuddin Mohammad Shaik, Hanan F Abdul-Rahim, Gheyath K Nasrallah, Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari, Adeel Butt, Hamad Eid Al-Romaihi, Mohamed H Al-Thani, Abdullatif Al-Khal, Roberto Bertollini, Laith J Abu-Raddad
Daily SARS-CoV-2 testing after travel-related close contact notifications during elite sporting events hosted in the UK: a longitudinal study (12 February, 2025)
Madeleine Davies, Jerry Hill, Luke Goggins, Nicholas Peirce, Jenifer Smith, Matthew Boulter, Tom Alan Fowler, Iain Buchan, James D F Calder
Risk of long covid in patients with pre-existing chronic respiratory diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis (30 January, 2025)
Paul Terry, R Eric Heidel, Alexandria Q Wilson, Rajiv Dhand
Lung function and onset of cardiometabolic diseases in the longitudinal Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study (19 January, 2025)
Christer Janson, James Potts, Andrei Malinovschi, Dhiraj Agarwal, Rana Ahmed, Althea Aquart-Stewart, Imed Harrabi, Meriam Denguezli, Graham Devereux, Gregory E Erhabor, Thorarinn Gislason, Rain Jogi, Sanjay K Juvekar, Ben Knox-Brown, Parvaiz Koul, Kevin Mortimer, Asaad Ahmed Nafees, Rune Nielsen, Padukudru Anand Mahesh, Stefanni Nonna M Paraguas, Anders Ørskov Rotevatn, Talant Sooronbaev, Peter G J Burney, Andre F S Amaral

Respiratory infection

Head-to-head comparison of anterior nares and nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection in a community drive-through test centre in the UK (22 March, 2025)
Rachel L Byrne, Ghaith Aljayyoussi, Konstantina Kontogianni, Karina Clerkin, Mathew McIntyre, Jahanara Wardale, Christopher T Williams, Richard Body, Emily R Adams, Margaretha de Vos, Camille Escadafal, Ana I Cubas Atienzar
Machine learning-based model for predicting all-cause mortality in severe pneumonia (22 March, 2025)
Weichao Zhao, Xuyan Li, Lianjun Gao, Zhuang Ai, Yaping Lu, Jiachen Li, Dong Wang, Xinlou Li, Nan Song, Xuan Huang, Zhao-hui Tong
Radiological abnormalities persist following COVID-19 and correlate with impaired health-related quality of life: a prospective cohort study of hospitalised patients (10 February, 2025)
Robert Sykes, Andrew J Morrow, Kenneth Mangion, Alex McConnachie, Alasdair McIntosh, Giles Roditi, Liam Peng, Claire Rooney, Kathryn Scott, David Barrie Stobo, Colin Berry, Colin Church, Hannah Bayes

Respiratory physiology

Impact of cycling cadence on physiological response during a cardiopulmonary exercise test (15 April, 2025)
Ben Knox-Brown, Chris Harding, Shabana Chowdhury, Andrew Pritchard, Joanna Shakespeare, Karl Peter Sylvester
Reference values for arm ergometry cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in healthy volunteers (9 April, 2025)
Joanna Shakespeare, Edward Parkes
Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation use in neuromuscular disease: a single centre cohort study (17 February, 2025)
Neeraj Mukesh Shah, Georgios Kaltsakas, Sophie Madden-Scott, Chloe Apps, Shauna Sheridan, Michelle Ramsay, Shelley Srivastava, Eui-Sik Suh, Rebecca D'Cruz, Mike Mackie, Nick Weston, Nicholas Hart, Patrick Murphy

Respiratory research

Sex differences in asthma and COPD hospital admission, readmission and mortality (17 March, 2025)
Hannah Whittaker, Alexander Adamson, Philip Stone, Precious Olubori, James Calvert, James Dodd, Ian Sinha, Katherine Hickman, Sally Singh, Jennifer K Quint
Investigating a structured diagnostic approach for chronic breathlessness in primary care: a mixed-methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial (13 February, 2025)
Gillian Doe, Jill Clanchy, Simon Wathall, Shaun Barber, Sarah A Edwards, Helen Evans, Darren Jackson, Natalie Armstrong, Michael C Steiner, Rachael A Evans

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2025 - Volume 12 - 1

Asthma

Bronchiectasis

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Lung cancer

Lung transplantation

Pleural disease

Paediatric lung disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Perspective

Tuberculosis

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Respiratory physiology

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