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Bronchodilator responsiveness and future chronic airflow obstruction
Knox-Brown, Ben; Algharbi, Fahad; Mulhern, Octavia; Potts, James; Harrabi, Imed; Janson, Christer; Nielsen, Rune; Agarwal, Dhiraj; Malinovschi, AndreiFunding Information: Acknowledgements: We thank all participants and staff for their time and effort put into this study. Infrastructure support for this research was provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Funding Information: National Heart and Lung Institute, UK Medical Research Council, and Wellcome Trust.We thank all participants and staff for their time and effort put into this stu...
Quality of life associated with breathlessness in the multinational Burden of O...
Müller, Alexander; Wouters, Emiel F.M.; Burney, Peter; Potts, James; Cardoso, Joao; Al Ghobain, Mohammed; Studnicka, Michael; Obaseki, DanielPublisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.; Introduction: Evidence of an association between breathlessness and quality of life from population-based studies is limited. We aimed to investigate the association of both physical and mental quality of life with breathlessness across several low-, middle- and high-income countries. Methods: We anal...
Geographical variation in lung function
Burney, Peter G.J.; Potts, James; Knox-Brown, Ben; Erhabor, Gregory; Hacene Cherkaski, Hamid; Mortimer, Kevin; Anand, Mahesh PadukudruSpirometry is used to determine what is "unusual" lung function compared with what is "usual" for healthy non-smokers. This study aimed to investigate regional variation in the forced vital capacity (FVC) and in the forced expiratory volume in one second to FVC ratio (FEV1/FVC) using cross-sectional data from all 41 sites of the multinational Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study. Participants (5,368 men; 9,...