Background Despite exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) being both common and often fatal, accurate prognostication of patients hospitalised with an exacerbation is difficult.

1 Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Laboratory of Pneumology, KU Leuven, ...

1 Department of Palliative Medicine, The North London Hospice and Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, London N12 8TF, UK 2 Department of Palliative Medicine, Bristol Haematology and Oncology ...

Dr C F A Pantin, Department of Respiratory Medicine, City General University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ST4 6QG, UK; ...

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and Brown University, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA Correspondence to Dr F Dennis McCool, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode ...

Hunter Medical Research Institute, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Dr P G Gibson Hunter Medical Research Institute, ...

1 Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden 2 Department of Experimental Medical Science BMC D12, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Correspondence to ...

Background: Patterns of wheezing during early childhood may indicate differences in aetiology and prognosis of respiratory illnesses. Improved characterisation of wheezing phenotypes could lead to the ...

Lung Investigation Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK Correspondence to: Professor R A Stockley Lung Investigation Unit, Nuffield House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 ...

Correspondence to Professor Rachel C Chambers, Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Repair, Division of Medicine, University College London, London WC1E 6JF, UK; r.chambers{at}ucl.ac.uk ...