The burden of obstructive lung disease initiative (BOLD): rationale and design

…, RO Crapo, RL Jensen, PGJ Burney - COPD: Journal of …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Quantifying COPD prevalence worldwide is needed to document COPD's effect on disability,
health care costs, and impaired quality of life and to inform governments and health …

Evaluation of health interventions at area and organisation level

…, MC Gulliford, S Chinn, JAC Sterne, PGJ Burney… - Bmj, 1999 - bmj.com
Healthcare interventions are often implemented at the level of the organisation or geographical
area rather than at the level of the individual patient or healthy subject. For example, …

Dietary antioxidants and asthma in adults: population-based case–control study

…, CE Songhurst, BM Margetts, PGJ Burney - American journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
A protective role for dietary antioxidants in asthma has been proposed. However, epidemiological
evidence to implicate antioxidant vitamins is weak, and data on the role of flavonoid-…

Global and regional trends in COPD mortality, 1990–2010

PGJ Burney, J Patel, R Newson… - European …, 2015 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Between 1990 and 2010, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) moved from the
fourth to third most common cause of death worldwide. Using data from the Global Burden of …

Gender differences in prevalence, diagnosis and incidence of allergic and non-allergic asthma: a population-based cohort

…, FG Real, M Wjst, E Zemp, M Zureik, PGJ Burney… - Thorax, 2012 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Although women with severe non-allergic asthma may represent a substantial
proportion of adults with asthma in clinical practice, gender differences in the incidence of …

Tuberculosis associates with both airflow obstruction and low lung function: BOLD results

…, ED Bateman, S Buist, PGJ Burney - European …, 2015 - Eur Respiratory Soc
In small studies and cases series, a history of tuberculosis has been associated with both
airflow obstruction, which is characteristic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of food sensitization and food allergy in children across Europe

…, J Potts, ENC Mills, R van Ree, PGJ Burney… - The Journal of Allergy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background For adults, prevalence estimates of food sensitization (FS) and food allergy (FA)
have been obtained in a standardized manner across Europe. For children, such estimates …

Frequent paracetamol use and asthma in adults

SO Shaheen, JAC Sterne, CE Songhurst, PGJ Burney - Thorax, 2000 - thorax.bmj.com
BACKGROUND The pulmonary antioxidant glutathione may limit airway inflammation in
asthma. Since paracetamol (acetaminophen) depletes the lung of glutathione in animals, a …

Food allergy in adults: substantial variation in prevalence and causative foods across Europe

SA Lyons, PGJ Burney, BK Ballmer-Weber… - The Journal of Allergy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background According to the community-based EuroPrevall surveys, prevalence of self-reported
food allergy (FA) in adults across Europe ranges from 2% to 37% for any food and 1% …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and burden of chronic bronchitis symptoms: results from the BOLD study

…, PGJ Burney - European …, 2017 - Eur Respiratory Soc
We studied the prevalence, burden and potential risk factors for chronic bronchitis
symptoms in the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study. Representative population-based …