… skills amongst patients with severe asthma ( Gibson 1993a). Asthma management guidelines
have … rely on expert opinion with variable reporting of their evidence base (Gibson 1993b). …

“This disease is still too strange to us, and there are too many doubts”, says Dr Ling Qin (LQ),
after reviewing more than 400 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

There is a need to re-evaluate the concept of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) as separate conditions, and to consider situations when they may coexist, or …

Background: The assessment of asthma control is pivotal to the evaluation of treatment
response in individuals and in clinical trials. Previously, asthma control, severity, and …

BACKGROUND: Airway inflammation is considered to be important in asthma but is relatively
inaccessible to study. Less invasive methods of obtaining sputum from patients unable to …

Objective: The authors sought to investigate the detection of non‐eosinophilic asthma using
induced sputum. Although this is an important subtype of clinical asthma, its recognition is …

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two prevalent chronic airway
diseases that have a high personal and social impact. They likely represent a continuum of …

Asthma is prevalent in Western countries, and recent explanations have evoked the actions
of the gut microbiota. Here we show that feeding mice a high-fibre diet yields a distinctive gut …

Study objectives: To identify the characteristics of airway inflammation in persistent asthma
and to examine the role of neutrophilic inflammation in noneosinophilic persistent asthma. …

Sputum cell-counts were studied in 7 non-smokers with corticosteroid-responsive chronic
cough productive of sputum and 8 smokers with a clinical diagnosis of chronic bronchitis, all of …