Thorax

Article	Citations
Vaping and CBD: can new technology overcome old problems?	222
Case-based discussion: neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for undiagnosed recalcitrant pulmonary hypertension—management challenges	179
Journal club	143
E-cigarette use in young adults and adolescents: not so safe?	117
Fibrosing mediastinitis: ‘haemoptysis in the Heartland’	111
Strengthening the evidence base to support stronger regulation of social media based advertising of e-cigarette products to youth	105
Beware, vaping e-cigarettes around children is adversely impacting their lung health	103
Ablation for lung cancer: hot or cold intervention	91
Neuropsychiatric diagnoses after montelukast initiation in paediatric patients with asthma	80
Emulated trial investigating effects of multiple treatments: estimating combined effects of mucoactive nebulisers in cystic fibrosis using registry data	69
Correction:British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2023	66
Automatic oxygen titration versus constant oxygen flow rates during walking in COPD: a randomised controlled, double-blind, crossover trial	63
Rectal organoid morphometric analysis (ROMA)—re: optimising measurements automatically	60
Effects of tobacco smoking on recurrent hospitalisation with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study	58
Loss of immune homeostasis in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension	58
TB PCR in BAL and EBUS-TBNA samples for the diagnosis of pulmonary and mediastinal lymph node TB: retrospective TRiBE study	58
Complex coexistence of COPD and cardiovascular disease	58
Ultra-low-dose CT versus chest X-ray for patients suspected of pulmonary disease at the emergency department: a multicentre randomised clinical trial	55
British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease	55
Ambient heat exposure and COPD hospitalisations in England: a nationwide case-crossover study during 2007–2018	55
Impact of sex on severe asthma: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of UK primary and specialist care	51
Correction:RAGE-induced ILC2 expansion in acute lung injury due to haemorrhagic shock	50
Highlights from this issue	46
Prevalence of lung cysts in adolescents and adults with a germlineDICER1pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant: a report from the National Institutes of Health and International Pleuropulmonary B	43
Lower airway microbiota in COPD and healthy controls	43

Muscle memory: genetic factors underlying functional impairment in COPD	43
Association between vitamin D status at 3 years and eosinophilic asthma in 6-year-old children with a history of severe bronchiolitis	43
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with suboptimal asthma care in the UK: the SABINA healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study	42
Implications of the 2022 lung function update and GLI global reference equations among patients with interstitial lung disease	41
Ageing and ivacaftor: unravelling the long-term effects	41
BTS Clinical Statement on air travel for passengers with respiratory disease	40
Intensive care unit interventions to promote sleep and circadian biology in reducing incident delirium: a scoping review	39
Airflow obstruction, impaired lung function and risk of sudden cardiac death: a prospective cohort study	39
Activation of epithelial and inflammatory pathways in adolescent elite athletes exposed to intense exercise and air pollution	37
Short-term exposure to ultrafine particles and asthma hospital admissions in children in Copenhagen, Denmark	37
Paediatric asthma hospitalisations continue to decrease in Finland and Sweden between 2015 and 2020	36
Lung function as independent predictor of cardiovascular disease risk: implications for practice and policy	36
Differentiation of malignant from benign pleural effusions based on artificial intelligence	36
Toxic metals and lung health: silent poisons?	36
Parenchymal lung abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 and viral pneumonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
COPD in Africa: risk factors, hospitalisation, readmission and associated outcomes—a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Functional impairment in COPD can be predicted using genomic-derived data	34
Case of hot tub lung showing a shadow distribution consistent with unequal ventilation	34
Past, present and future of conservative oxygen therapy in critical care	34
Web-based physical activity promotion in young people with CF: a randomised controlled trial	33
Disadvantage in early-life and persistent asthma in adolescents: a UK cohort study	33
Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency	33
Air athletes breathe: weighing benefits against harm	33
Correction:British thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2022	32
Invasive pulmonary infection caused byTrichoderma longibrachiatum	32
Sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults with intellectual disability: mind the gap!	31
Quantitative BAL: a suitable method for the assessment of epithelial lining fluid in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?	31
Impact of ambient air pollution on lung function in preterm-born school-aged children	31
Highlights from this issue	31
Testosterone and lung function: bigger lungs, slower decline or some combination of both?	31
Lung function in children with cystic fibrosis in the USA and UK: a comparative longitudinal analysis of national registry data	31
Topological data analysis identifies molecular phenotypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	30
A syndrome by any other name: playing the long-term outcome CARDS	30
Journal club	30
Early experience of a new national lung allocation scheme in the UK based on clinical urgency	29
Human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical dysplasia in adult female cystic fibrosis (CF) lung transplant recipients	28
Effects of azithromycin in severe eosinophilic asthma with concomitant monoclonal antibody treatment	28
Recent trends in asthma diagnosis, preschool wheeze diagnosis and asthma exacerbations in English children and adolescents: a SABINA Jr study	28
Returning to work following critical illness: milestone or millstone?	28
Effects of traditional mind–body movement therapy on chronic cardiopulmonary dyspnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation	28
Journal club	28
Journal club	27
Fixing lung health in the UK: accelerating respiratory research and innovation	27
Management of a complex thoracic infection, one compartment at a time	26
Untangling the web between menopause and respiratory disease	25
Comparing tests in the absence of a reference standard	25
Heat-related hospitalisations for asthma – challenges for research	25
Association of fluoroquinolones with the risk of spontaneous pneumothorax: nationwide case–time–control study	25
Comprehensive analysis of environmental exposure to hazardous trace elements and lung function: a national cross-sectional study	25

Silicone depositions: an unusual finding in the explanted and newly transplanted lungs	25
Understanding the effectiveness of different exercise training programme designs on V̇O2peakin COPD: a component network meta-analysis	24
Mediators of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD): systematic review and meta-analyses	24
Effect of CRTH2 antagonism on the response to experimental rhinovirus infection in asthma: a pilot randomised controlled trial	24
Exploring the challenges of accessing medication for patients with cystic fibrosis	24
Establishing the exposure–outcome relation between airborne particulate matter and children’s health	24
Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community	23
Maintaining light sedation is important: next steps for research	23
Blood eosinophils take centre stage in predicting the response to sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT): a familiar twist	23
MAC attack: MSCs and macrophages join forces against chronic lung infection	23
Observational UK cohort study to describe intermittent oral corticosteroid prescribing patterns and their association with adverse outcomes in asthma	22
Reduced lung function and health-related quality of life after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambian children: a cross-sectional comparative study	22
Global and regional burden of interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019	21
Correction:Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data	21
Combined effect of ozone and household air pollution on COPD in people aged less than 50 years old	21
QCOVID in Scotland: time to recalibrate our expectations?	21
Journal club	21
Searching, again, for answers in all the wrong places	21
Projecting the impact of triple CFTR modulator therapy on intravenous antibiotic requirements in cystic fibrosis using patient registry data combined with treatment effects from randomised trials	20
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on lung cancer survival in England: an analysis of the rapid cancer registration dataset	20
Inequalities in care and the burden of wheeze and asthma in young children from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds	20
COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multiciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors	20
Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the host response in severe community-acquired pneumonia	20
Effect of time of day and seasonal variation on bronchodilator responsiveness: the SPIRO-TIMETRY study	19
Variability in sensitivity to inflammation in muscle and lung of patients with COPD may underlie susceptibility to lung function decline	19
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation during outpatient-managed acute COPD exacerbation: the latest new PR model?	19
Rare case of bilateral lung nodules	19
Derivation and validation of a simple multidimensional index incorporating exercise capacity parameters for survival prediction in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	19
MUC5B, telomere length and longitudinal quantitative interstitial lung changes: the MESA Lung Study	19
Cause-specific mortality in COPD subpopulations: a cohort study of 339 647 people in England	19
Variability in forced expiratory volume in 1 s in children with symptomatically well-controlled asthma	19
Prospective nationwide multicentre cohort study of the clinical significance of autoimmune features in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias	18
Challenging the gold standard: the limitations of molecular assays for detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisheteroresistance	18
Highlights from this issue	18
Evaluation of a health and social care programme to improve outcomes following critical illness: a multicentre study	18
What’s new in pleural disease?	18
Cigarette smoke exposure and alveolar macrophages: mechanisms for lung disease	18
Correction: BTS clinical statement on pulmonary sarcoidosis	18
Does pay-for-performance improve patient outcomes in acute exacerbation of COPD admissions?	17
Highlights from this issue	17
Selective androgen receptor modulation for muscle weakness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised control trial	17
New statement and new hope for patients with refractory chronic cough	17
Correction: What’s hot that the other lot got	16
Sex differences in COPD in relation to smoking exposure: a population-based cohort study	16
British Thoracic Society Guideline for diagnosing and monitoring paediatric sleep-disordered breathing	16
Does impaired respiratory function lead to sudden cardiac death?	16
Novel electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy system for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodules: a prospective, multicentre study	16
Effect of quitting smoking on health outcomes during treatment for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of the TB & Tobacco Trial	16
Use of inhaled corticosteroids and risk of acquiringPseudomonas aeruginosain patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	16
Computational fluid dynamics model predictions of inhaled corticosteroid deposition in patients with severe asthma	16
Time to move out of the shadows: ILA in patients with lung cancer	16
Airflow obstruction and small airway dysfunction following pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross-sectional survey	16
Atopic and non-atopic effects of fish oil supplementation during pregnancy	16
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation on endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy	16
Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study	15
Persistent alveolar inflammatory response in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is associated with mortality	15
Circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a new association	15
Effects of exercise training in people with non-small cell lung cancer before lung resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Children’s charter for lung health	14
Multiple intrathoracic extramedullary haematopoiesis as visualised on medical thoracoscopy	14
Laryngeal widening and adequate ventilation by expiratory pressure load training improve aerobic capacity in COPD: a randomised controlled trial	14
Reversible bronchiectasis	14
Identifying a hyperinflammatory subphenotype of ARDS associated with worse outcomes: may ferritin help?	14
Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success?	14
Angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery as an unexpected evolution of an apparent pulmonary thromboembolism	14
Correction: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting February 2021	14
High-flow nasal oxygen: benefits are hard to show in COVID-19 patients with mild hypoxaemia	14
To progress or not to progress: new insights into the evolution of pleuropulmonary blastomas come from studying lung cysts in adolescents and adults withDICER1-related tumour predisposition	14
Collagen neoepitopes in sarcoidosis: what do they tell us?	14
Clinical presentation and prognosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients with concomitant upper-extremity versus lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis	14
Journal club	14
Type-2 inflammation: a key treatable trait associated with lung function decline in chronic airways disease	13
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations may be the only clinical criterion present in genetically confirmed hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia	13
A prospective longitudinal study of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in pulmonary tuberculosis in Indonesia (APICAL)	13
Improving uptake of lung cancer screening: an observational study on the impact of timed appointments and reminders	13
Advanced MicroRNA delivery for lung inflammatory therapy: surfactant protein A controls cellular internalisation and degradation of extracellular vesicles	13
Role of inflammasomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome	13
Bacterial biofilms predominate in both acute and chronic human lung infections	13
Symptom-related screening programme for early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism: the SYSPPE study	13
Effects of enhanced recovery after surgery plus pulmonary rehabilitation on complications after video-assisted lung cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised controlled trial	13

Lung epithelial cells interact with immune cells and bacteria to shape the microenvironment in tuberculosis	13
Asthma exacerbations are associated with a decline in lung function: a longitudinal population-based study	13
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	12
Highlights from this issue	12
Opportunistic actinomycosis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis	12
Consolidation with pseudocavitation	12
Disease monitoring using lung function trajectory in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: assessment in two national cohorts	12
Artificial stone silicosis arrives in the UK: a tragic case of history repeating	12
Respiratory research in the UK: investing for the next 10 years	12
Correction:Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma	12
Journal club	12
Immediate smoking cessation support during lung cancer screening: long-term outcomes from two randomised controlled trials	12
Comparative estimate of glucose-lowering therapies on risk of incident pneumonia and severe sepsis: an analysis of real-world cohort data	12
Journal club	11
Optimising breathlessness triggered services for older people with advanced diseases: a multicentre economic study (OPTBreathe)	11
Infections due to dysregulated immunity: an emerging complication of cancer immunotherapy	11
Respiratory and allergic outcomes among 5-year-old children exposed to pesticides	11
Definition of diaphragmatic sleep disordered breathing and clinical meaning in Duchenne muscular dystrophy	11
Improvements of the shape and strength of the diaphragm after endoscopic lung volume reduction	11
Oscillatory positive expiratory pressure therapy in COPD (O-COPD): a randomised controlled trial	11
Breathlessness across generations: results from the RHINESSA generation study	11
Altered purine metabolism at reperfusion affects clinical outcome in lung transplantation	11
Journal club	11
Risk of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and other interstitial lung diseases following organic dust exposure	11
Remote vision-based digital patient monitoring of pulse and respiratory rates in acute medical wards	11
Automatic analysis of bronchus-artery dimensions to diagnose and monitor airways disease in cystic fibrosis	11
Journal club	10
Tobacco industry ownership of pharmaceutical companies: an international survey of people with respiratory disease	10
Higher SARS-CoV-2 detection of oropharyngeal compared with nasopharyngeal or saliva specimen for molecular testing: a multicentre randomised comparative accuracy study	10
Prognostic accuracy of a peripheral blood transcriptome signature in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis	10
Future risk projection to engage ‘near-miss’ individuals in lung cancer screening eligibility: an analysis of ILST data	10
Environmental pollutants exposure-derived extracellular vesicles: crucial players in respiratory disorders	10
Spontaneous intrapulmonary haemorrhage in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome	10
High-dose rifamycins in the treatment of TB: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Persistent hypoxaemia and a headache in a previously healthy 11-year-old girl	10
Mild elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance predicts mortality regardless of mean pulmonary artery pressure in mild interstitial lung disease	10
Common idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis risk variants are associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis	10
Post-pandemic tuberculosis incidence: potential success of active case finding?	10
Journal club	10
Higher exhaled nitric oxide at 6 weeks of age is associated with less bronchiolitis and wheeze in the first 12 months of age	10
Childhood interstitial lung disease: short lessons from telomeres	10
Impact of COPD on cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in people with established cardiovascular disease	10
Association of circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	10
Patient stratification using plasma cytokines and their regulators in sepsis: relationship to outcomes, treatment effect and leucocyte transcriptomic subphenotypes	10
Impacts of sex and gender on severe asthma	10
Tracheal stenosis after endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration	9
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on occupational asthma	9
Eosinophilia and fractional exhaled nitric oxide levels in chronic obstructive lung disease	9
Multicentre evaluation of two multiplex PCR platforms for the rapid microbiological investigation of nosocomial pneumonia in UK ICUs: the INHALE WP1 study	9
Decoding pulmonary nodules: can machine learning enhance malignancy risk stratification?	9
Understanding the aetiology of lung function impairment: the crucial role of age of onset	9
Extensive airway remodelling in severe COPD imparts resiliency to environmental stressors	9
In search of the elusive biomarker(s): a proteomics analysis in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease	9
Pulmonary tuberculosis associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a pharmacovigilance study	9
Impact of radiographer immediate reporting of X-rays of the chest from general practice on the lung cancer pathway (radioX): a randomised controlled trial	9
Antenatal exposures to tobacco and biomass or fossil fuels and wheezing in early childhood in South Africa	9
Chronic berylliosis disease: uncommon pulmonary granulomas beyond sarcoidosis	9
Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in the lung	9
Metabolomic differences in lung function metrics: evidence from two cohorts	9
Airway inflammation in severe asthmatics with acid gastro-oesophageal reflux	9
Highlights from this issue	9
What shall we learn from TEACH?	9
Rebound in asthma exacerbations following relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal population-based study (COVIDENCE UK)	9
Associations of ultrafine and fine particles with childhood emergency room visits for respiratory diseases in a megacity	9
Cardiac MRI in the assessment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and response to treatment	9
Rare occurrence of tracheal acinic cell carcinoma causing central airway obstruction in a young adult	9
IgG and plasma viscosity as markers of disease activity in primary Sjogren’s syndrome-related lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia	8
Chronotherapy in asthma: BD or not BD? That is the question	8
Benefit–harm analysis of azithromycin for the prevention of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	8
Respiratory effects of air pollution: time to stop this deadly trajectory	8
Cost-related non-adherence to medications among adults with asthma in the USA, 2011–2022	8
Antibiotic pharmacokinetics in infected pleural effusions	8
Accuracy of Xpert Ultra for the diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in a low TB burden country: a prospective multicentre study	8
Xpert Ultra for diagnosing tuberculosis at bronchoscopy: thoughts on practical applications	8
Mendelian randomisation of eosinophils and other cell types in relation to lung function and disease	8
Cost-effectiveness of home non-invasive ventilation in patients with persistent hypercapnia after an acute exacerbation of COPD in the UK	8
Non-cigarette tobacco products, aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene methylation and smoking-related health outcomes	8
Th2 high and mast cell gene signatures are associated with corticosteroid sensitivity in COPD	8
One-step closer to solve the mystery of predicting disease progression in systemic sclerosis associated interstitial lung disease?	8
Further evidence that sex matters in lung development: maternal asthma and infant lung function	8
Pleural and transpulmonary pressures to tailor protective ventilation in children	8
Serum cytokine biosignatures for identification of tuberculosis among HIV-positive inpatients	8
Endoplasmic reticulum-unfolded protein response signalling is altered in severe eosinophilic and neutrophilic asthma	8
Endobronchial obstruction of the left middle lobe	8
Chronic airflow obstruction attributable to poverty in the multinational Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study	8
Cost-effectiveness of ambulatory care management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: an open-label, randomised controlled trial	8
Grappling with the granuloma: where is the ACE in the hole?	8
Unravelling the obesity–asthma connection in childhood and adolescence: does body shape matter?	7
Impact of TAS2R38 polymorphisms on nasal nitric oxide and Pseudomonas infections in primary ciliary dyskinesia: relation to genotype	7
COPD in the chromosomes	7
Journal club	7
Pulmonary sarcoidosis: differences in lung function change over time	7
Exposure to inorganic particles in paediatric sarcoidosis: the PEDIASARC study	7
Journal club	7
COVID-19 associated phrenic nerve mononeuritis: a case series	7