Background The impact of COVID-19 on physical and mental health and employment after
hospitalisation with acute disease is not well understood. The aim of this study was to …

Asthma is responsible for considerable global morbidity and health-care costs. Substantial
progress was made against key outcomes such as hospital admissions with asthma and …

Rationale: With the advent of new and expensive therapies for severe refractory asthma,
targeting the appropriate patients is important. An important issue is identifying nonadherence …

Increasing evidence suggests that asthma is a heterogeneous disorder regulated by distinct
molecular mechanisms. In a cross-sectional study of asthmatics of varying severity (n = 51), …

BACKGROUND: Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is a cytokine implicated in the
pathophysiology of asthma through 2 distinct pathways: a TSLP–OX40 ligand (OX40L)–T cell axis …

… Liam G Heaney1 … Correspondence to Professor Liam G Heaney, Centre for Infection and
Immunity, Queen's University of Belfast, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, …

Objective Acute heart failure (AHF) is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Trimethylamine
N-oxide (TMAO), a gut-derived metabolite, has reported association with mortality risk …

Persistent ill health after acute COVID-19—referred to as long COVID, the post-acute COVID-19
syndrome, or the post-COVID-19 condition—has emerged as a major concern. We …

Background No consensus exists on how to reduce oral corticosteroids after the initiation of
biologics in severe asthma. The PONENTE trial evaluated the effectiveness and safety of a …

… Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Liam G. Heaney, MD,
Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen’s University of Belfast, Level 8, Belfast City Hospital, …