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Professor CHARLOTTE BOLTON's Outputs (64)

DYNamic Assessment of Multi‐Organ level dysfunction in patients recovering from COVID‐19: DYNAMO COVID‐19 (2024)
Journal Article
Gupta, A., Nicholas, R., McGing, J. J., Nixon, A. V., Mallinson, J. E., McKeever, T. M., Bradley, C. R., Piasecki, M., Cox, E. F., Bonnington, J., Lord, J. M., Brightling, C. E., Evans, R. A., Hall, I. P., Francis, S. T., Greenhaff, P. L., & Bolton, C. E. (2024). DYNamic Assessment of Multi‐Organ level dysfunction in patients recovering from COVID‐19: DYNAMO COVID‐19. Experimental Physiology, 109(8), 1274-1291. https://doi.org/10.1113/ep091590

We evaluated the impacts of COVID-19 on multi-organ and metabolic function in patients following severe hospitalised infection compared to controls. Patients (n = 21) without previous diabetes, cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease were recruited... Read More about DYNamic Assessment of Multi‐Organ level dysfunction in patients recovering from COVID‐19: DYNAMO COVID‐19.

Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2024)
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Peggs, Z. J., Brooke, J. P., Bolton, C. E., Hall, I. P., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2024). Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.29444

Background: In respiratory medicine, there is a need for sensitive measures of regional lung function that can be performed using standard imaging technology, without the need for inhaled or intravenous contrast agents. Purpose: To describe VOxel‐wis... Read More about Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases (2024)
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Shek, N., Choy, A., Lang, C. C., Miller, B. E., Tal-Singer, R., Bolton, C. E., …Huang, J. T. J. (2024). Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases. npj Aging, 10(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41514-024-00143-7

Aging is a major driving force for many diseases but the relationship between chronological age, the aging process and age-related diseases is not fully understood. Fragmentation and loss of ultra-long-lived elastin are key features in aging and seve... Read More about Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases.

Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity (2024)
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Lord, J. M., Veenith, T., Sullivan, J., Sharma-Oates, A., Richter, A. G., Greening, N. J., …Bolton, C. E. (2024). Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity. Immunity and Ageing, 21(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12979-023-00406-z

Background: The striking increase in COVID-19 severity in older adults provides a clear example of immunesenescence, the age-related remodelling of the immune system. To better characterise the association between convalescent immunesenescence and ac... Read More about Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity.

Balancing the value and risk of exercise-based therapy post-COVID-19: a narrative review (2023)
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Singh, S. J., Daynes, E., McAuley, H. J., Raman, B., Greening, N. J., Chalder, T., …Bolton, C. E. (2023). Balancing the value and risk of exercise-based therapy post-COVID-19: a narrative review. European Respiratory Review, 32(170), Article 230110. https://doi.org/10.1183/16000617.0110-2023

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to ongoing symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue and muscle pain, which can have a substantial impact on an individual. Exercise-based rehabilitation programmes have proven beneficial in many long-term... Read More about Balancing the value and risk of exercise-based therapy post-COVID-19: a narrative review.

Cohort Profile: Post-Hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study (2023)
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Elneima, O., McAuley, H. J. C., Leavy, O. C., Chalmers, J. D., Horsley, A., Ho, L.-P., Marks, M., Poinasamy, K., Raman, B., Shikotra, A., Singapuri, A., Sereno, M., Harris, V. C., Houchen-Wolloff, L., Saunders, R. M., Greening, N. J., Richardson, M., Quint, J. K., Briggs, A., Docherty, A. B., …Behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, O. (2024). Cohort Profile: Post-Hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 53(1), Article dyad165. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyad165

The Post-Hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study is a national UK multicentre cohort study of patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19 and subsequently discharged.

PHOSP-COVID was established to investigate the medium- and long-term sequel... Read More about Cohort Profile: Post-Hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study.

Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, J., Shek, N., Choy, A., Lang, C., Miller, B., Tal-Singer, R., …Brown, M. Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases

Aging is a major driving force for many diseases but the relationship between age, aging processes and age-related diseases is not fully understood. Fragmentation and loss of ultra-long-lived elastin are key features in aging and several age-related... Read More about Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases.

Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation (2023)
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Rajasekar, P., Hall, R. J., Binaya, K., Mahapatra, P. S., Puppala, S. P., Thakker, D., …Clifford, R. L. (2023). Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation. Environmental Pollution, 337, Article 122561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122561

Household air pollution caused by inefficient cooking practices causes 4 million deaths a year worldwide. In Nepal, 86% of the rural population use solid fuels for cooking. Over 25% of premature deaths associated with air pollution are respiratory in... Read More about Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation.

Prevalence of swallow, communication, voice and cognitive compromise following hospitalisation for COVID-19: the PHOSP-COVID analysis (2023)
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Dawson, C., Clunie, G., Evison, F., Duncan, S., Whitney, J., Houchen-Wolloff, L., …PHOSP-COVID collaborative Group. (2023). Prevalence of swallow, communication, voice and cognitive compromise following hospitalisation for COVID-19: the PHOSP-COVID analysis. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 10(1), Article e001647. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2023-001647

Objective: Identify prevalence of self-reported swallow, communication, voice and cognitive compromise following hospitalisation for COVID-19.

Design: Multicentre prospective observational cohort study using questionnaire data at visit 1 (2–7 mont... Read More about Prevalence of swallow, communication, voice and cognitive compromise following hospitalisation for COVID-19: the PHOSP-COVID analysis.

Association between antidepressants with pneumonia and exacerbation in patients with COPD: a self-controlled case series (SCCS) (2023)
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Siraj, R. A., Bolton, C. E., & McKeever, T. M. (2023). Association between antidepressants with pneumonia and exacerbation in patients with COPD: a self-controlled case series (SCCS). Thorax, 79(1), 50-57. https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2022-219736

Objective: To assess whether antidepressant prescriptions are associated with an increased risk of pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. Methods: A self-controlled case series was performed to investigate the rates... Read More about Association between antidepressants with pneumonia and exacerbation in patients with COPD: a self-controlled case series (SCCS).

Circulating testosterone levels and health outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from ECLIPSE and ERICA (2023)
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Pavey, H., Polkey, M. I., Bolton, C. E., Cheriyan, J., McEniery, C. M., Wilkinson, I., …Fisk, M. (2023). Circulating testosterone levels and health outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from ECLIPSE and ERICA. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 10(1), Article e001601. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2022-001601

The relationship of circulating testosterone levels with health outcomes in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unknown.

Aim
To determine whether serum testosterone levels predict hospitalised acute exacerbations of COPD... Read More about Circulating testosterone levels and health outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from ECLIPSE and ERICA.

Cohort Profile: Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study (PHOSP-COVID) (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Elneima, O., McAuley, H. J. C., Leavy, O. C., Chalmers, J. D., Horsley, A., Ho, L., …on behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group. Cohort Profile: Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study (PHOSP-COVID)

PHOSP-COVID is a national UK multi-centre cohort study of patients who were hospitalised for COVID-19 and subsequently discharged.

PHOSP-COVID was established to investigate the medium- and long-term sequelae of severe COVID-19 requiring hospitali... Read More about Cohort Profile: Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study (PHOSP-COVID).

Effects of sleep disturbance on dyspnoea and impaired lung function following hospital admission due to COVID-19 in the UK: a prospective multicentre cohort study (2023)
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Jackson, C., Stewart, I. D., Plekhanova, T., Cunningham, P. S., Hazel, A. L., Al-Sheklly, B., …Blaikley, J. F. (2023). Effects of sleep disturbance on dyspnoea and impaired lung function following hospital admission due to COVID-19 in the UK: a prospective multicentre cohort study. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 11(8), 673-684. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2823%2900124-8

Sleep disturbance is common following hospital admission both for COVID-19 and other causes. The clinical associations of this for recovery after hospital admission are poorly understood despite sleep disturbance contributing to morbidity in other sc... Read More about Effects of sleep disturbance on dyspnoea and impaired lung function following hospital admission due to COVID-19 in the UK: a prospective multicentre cohort study.

Prevalence of physical frailty, including risk factors, up to 1 year after hospitalisation for COVID-19 in the UK: a multicentre, longitudinal cohort study (2023)
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McAuley, H. J., Evans, R. A., Bolton, C. E., Brightling, C. E., Chalmers, J. D., Docherty, A. B., …Greening, N. J. (2023). Prevalence of physical frailty, including risk factors, up to 1 year after hospitalisation for COVID-19 in the UK: a multicentre, longitudinal cohort study. eClinicalMedicine, 57, Article 101896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101896

Background: The scale of COVID-19 and its well documented long-term sequelae support a need to understand long-term outcomes including frailty. Methods: This prospective cohort study recruited adults who had survived hospitalisation with clinically d... Read More about Prevalence of physical frailty, including risk factors, up to 1 year after hospitalisation for COVID-19 in the UK: a multicentre, longitudinal cohort study.

Device-assessed sleep and physical activity in individuals recovering from a hospital admission for COVID-19: a multicentre study (2022)
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Plekhanova, T., Rowlands, A. V., Evans, R. A., Edwardson, C. L., Bishop, N. C., Bolton, C. E., …PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group. (2022). Device-assessed sleep and physical activity in individuals recovering from a hospital admission for COVID-19: a multicentre study. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 19(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01333-w

Background: The number of individuals recovering from severe COVID-19 is increasing rapidly. However, little is known about physical behaviours that make up the 24-h cycle within these individuals. This study aimed to describe physical behaviours fol... Read More about Device-assessed sleep and physical activity in individuals recovering from a hospital admission for COVID-19: a multicentre study.

Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal (2022)
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Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Binaya, C., Robinson, B., Adhikari, P., Evans, C., …Hall, I. P. (2022). Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal. Social Science and Medicine, 308, Article 115201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115201

Drawing on village-based data from Nepal, this paper explores the transferability of the Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IBM-WASH) to the clean cooking sector and its potential to elucidate how barriers to improved coo... Read More about Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal.

Impact of Coexisting Dementia on Inpatient Outcomes for Patients Admitted with a COPD Exacerbation (2022)
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Gupta, A., McKeever, T. M., Hutchinson, J. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2022). Impact of Coexisting Dementia on Inpatient Outcomes for Patients Admitted with a COPD Exacerbation. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2022(17), 535-544. https://doi.org/10.2147/copd.s345751

Purpose: People with COPD are at a higher risk of cognitive dysfunction than the general population. However, the additional impact of dementia amongst such patients is not well understood, particularly in those admitted with a COPD exacerbation. We... Read More about Impact of Coexisting Dementia on Inpatient Outcomes for Patients Admitted with a COPD Exacerbation.

Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (2022)
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Houchen-Wolloff, L., Poinasamy, K., Holmes, K., Tarpey, M., Hastie, C., Raihani, K., …Evans, R. A. (2022). Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19. Thorax, 77(7), 717-720. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-218582

Given the large numbers of people infected and high rates of ongoing morbidity, research is clearly required to address the needs of adult survivors of COVID-19 living with ongoing symptoms (long COVID). To help direct resource and research efforts,... Read More about Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19.

Patient-reported respiratory outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Middleton, S., Chalitsios, C., McKeever, T. M., Jenkins, A. R., & Bolton, C. E. Patient-reported respiratory outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Acute COVID-19 clinical symptoms have been clearly documented, but long-term functional and symptomatic recovery from COVID -19 is less well described.

Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to describe patient-rep... Read More about Patient-reported respiratory outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Patient-related outcomes in patients referred to a respiratory clinic with persisting symptoms following non-hospitalised COVID-19 (2022)
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Harvey-Dunstan, T. C., Jenkins, A. R., Gupta, A., Hall, I. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2022). Patient-related outcomes in patients referred to a respiratory clinic with persisting symptoms following non-hospitalised COVID-19. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 19, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1177/14799731211069391

Survivors of COVID-19 can present with varied and persisting symptoms, regardless of hospitalisation. We describe the ongoing symptoms, quality of life and return to work status in a cohort of non-hospitalised COVID-19 survivors with persisting respi... Read More about Patient-related outcomes in patients referred to a respiratory clinic with persisting symptoms following non-hospitalised COVID-19.

Whole-body and muscle responses to aerobic exercise training and withdrawal in ageing and COPD (2021)
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Latimer, L. E., Constantin-Teodosiu, D., Popat, B., Constantin, D., Houchen-Wolloff, L., Bolton, C. E., …Greenhaff, P. L. (2022). Whole-body and muscle responses to aerobic exercise training and withdrawal in ageing and COPD. European Respiratory Journal, 59(5), Article 2101507. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01507-2021

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients exhibit lower peak oxygen uptake (V'O2peak), altered muscle metabolism and impaired exercise tolerance compared with age-matched controls. Whether these traits reflect muscle-level dec... Read More about Whole-body and muscle responses to aerobic exercise training and withdrawal in ageing and COPD.

Developing good practice by understanding how UK medical schools address low level concerns: a survey study (2021)
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Vivekananda-Schmidt, P., Bolton, C., & Knox, R. (2022). Developing good practice by understanding how UK medical schools address low level concerns: a survey study. Education for Primary Care, 33(1), 6-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2021.1948805

In the literature, a distinction is made between low-level concerns and what is regarded as fitness to practise concerns. The General Medical Council expects all UK medical schools to have a transparent process in place about how concerns about its m... Read More about Developing good practice by understanding how UK medical schools address low level concerns: a survey study.

Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions (2021)
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Meghji, J., Mortimer, K., Agusti, A., Allwood, B. W., Asher, I., Bateman, E. D., …Marks, G. B. (2021). Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions. Lancet, 397(10277), 928-940. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2821%2900458-X

Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionately high burden of the global morbidity and mortality caused by chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, and pos... Read More about Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions.

The feasibility and tolerability of using Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with adults discharged from the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) (2021)
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Pick, H., Faghy, M., Cresswell, G., Ashton, D., Bolton, C., McKeever, T., …Bewick, T. (2021). The feasibility and tolerability of using Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with adults discharged from the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Advances in Respiratory Medicine, 89, 216-220. https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2021.0002

Background: Patients experience substantial morbidity following discharge from hospital and during recovery from community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) has demonstrated improved functional capacity and reduced patient-r... Read More about The feasibility and tolerability of using Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with adults discharged from the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review (2021)
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Ekezie, W., Jenkins, A. R., Hall, I. P., Evans, C., Koju, R., Kurmi, O. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2021). The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 18, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479973121994572

While chronic lung disease causes substantial global morbidity and mortality, global estimates have primarily been based on broad assumptions. Specific country data from low-income countries such as Nepal are limited. This review assessed primary evi... Read More about The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review.

Cardiovascular risk prediction using physical performance measures in COPD: results from a multicentre observational study (2020)
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Fermont, J. M., Fisk, M., Bolton, C. E., MacNee, W., Cockcroft, J. R., Fuld, J., …Wilkinson, I. B. (2020). Cardiovascular risk prediction using physical performance measures in COPD: results from a multicentre observational study. BMJ Open, 10(12), Article e038360. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038360

Objectives Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common comorbidity associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it is unknown how to improve prediction of cardiovascular (CV) risk in individuals with COPD. Traditional CV risk s... Read More about Cardiovascular risk prediction using physical performance measures in COPD: results from a multicentre observational study.

Risk of incident dementia and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): A large UK population-based study (2020)
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Siraj, R., McKeever, T., Gibson, J., Gordon, A., & Bolton, C. (2021). Risk of incident dementia and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): A large UK population-based study. Respiratory Medicine, 177, Article 106288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106288

Background: Although cognitive impairment and dementia are common comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), estimates of incidence following a diagnosis of COPD are inconclusive. Objective: To determine the incidenc... Read More about Risk of incident dementia and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): A large UK population-based study.

British Thoracic Society survey of rehabilitation to support recovery of the post-COVID- 19 population (2020)
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Singh, S. J., Barradell, A. C., Greening, N. J., Bolton, C., Jenkins, G., Preston, L., & Hurst, J. R. (2020). British Thoracic Society survey of rehabilitation to support recovery of the post-COVID- 19 population. BMJ Open, 10(12), Article e040213. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040213

Objective A proportion of those recovering from COVID-19 are likely to have significant and ongoing symptoms, functional impairment and psychological disturbances. There is an immediate need to develop a safe and efficient discharge process and recov... Read More about British Thoracic Society survey of rehabilitation to support recovery of the post-COVID- 19 population.

Short physical performance battery as a practical tool to assess mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2020)
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Fermont, J. M., Mohan, D., Fisk, M., Bolton, C. E., Macnee, W., Cockcroft, J. R., …Polkey, M. I. (2021). Short physical performance battery as a practical tool to assess mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Age and Ageing, 50(3), 795-801. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa138

RATIONALE: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mortality and common in older adults. The BODE Index is the most recognised mortality risk score in COPD but includes a 6-minute walk test (6MWT) that is seldom available i... Read More about Short physical performance battery as a practical tool to assess mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Submaximal Eccentric Cycling in People With COPD: Acute Whole-Body Cardiopulmonary and Muscle Metabolic Responses (2020)
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Ward, T. J. C., Lindley, M. R., Ferguson, R. A., Constantin, D., Singh, S. J., Bolton, C. E., …Steiner, M. C. (2021). Submaximal Eccentric Cycling in People With COPD: Acute Whole-Body Cardiopulmonary and Muscle Metabolic Responses. Chest, 159(2), 564-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.08.2082

© 2020 American College of Chest Physicians Background: Eccentric cycling (ECC) may be an attractive exercise method in COPD because of both low cardiorespiratory demand and perception of effort compared with conventional concentric cycling (CON) at... Read More about Submaximal Eccentric Cycling in People With COPD: Acute Whole-Body Cardiopulmonary and Muscle Metabolic Responses.

Assessing the impact of posture on diaphragm morphology and function using an open upright MRI system – a pilot study (2020)
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Safavi, S., Arthofer, C., Cooper, A., Harkin, J. W., Prayle, A. P., Sovani, M. P., …Hall, I. P. (2020). Assessing the impact of posture on diaphragm morphology and function using an open upright MRI system – a pilot study. European Journal of Radiology, 130, Article 109196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.109196

Purpose
The diaphragm is the most important muscle of respiration. Disorders of the diaphragm can have a deleterious impact on respiratory function. We aimed to evaluate the use of an open-configuration upright low-field MRI system to assess diaphra... Read More about Assessing the impact of posture on diaphragm morphology and function using an open upright MRI system – a pilot study.

Relationship of CT densitometry to lung physiological parameters and health status in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: initial report of a centralised database of the NIHR rare diseases translational research collaborative (2020)
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Crossley, D., Stockley, J., Bolton, C. E., Hopkinson, N. S., Mahadeva, R., Steiner, M., …Stockley, R. A. (2020). Relationship of CT densitometry to lung physiological parameters and health status in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: initial report of a centralised database of the NIHR rare diseases translational research collaborative. BMJ Open, 10(6), Article e036045. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036045

Objectives To establish a database network for the study of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and compare the results to CT lung density as the most direct measure of emphysema.

Design A central electronic database was established to permit th... Read More about Relationship of CT densitometry to lung physiological parameters and health status in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: initial report of a centralised database of the NIHR rare diseases translational research collaborative.

Management of Fracture Risk in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Building a UK Consensus Through Healthcare Professional and Patient Engagement (2020)
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Gupta, A., Jayes, L. R., Holmes, S., Sahota, O., Canavan, M., Elkin, S. L., …Bolton, C. E. (2020). Management of Fracture Risk in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Building a UK Consensus Through Healthcare Professional and Patient Engagement. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 15, 1377-1390. https://doi.org/10.2147/copd.s233398

Introduction: Osteoporosis and bone fractures are common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality. Current national guidance on COPD management recommends addressing bone health in patien... Read More about Management of Fracture Risk in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Building a UK Consensus Through Healthcare Professional and Patient Engagement.

Respiratory and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Survivors of Extremely Preterm Birth at 19 Years (2020)
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Hurst, J. R., Beckmann, J., Ni, Y., Bolton, C. E., McEniery, C. M., Cockcroft, J. R., & Marlow, N. (2020). Respiratory and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Survivors of Extremely Preterm Birth at 19 Years. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 202(3), 422-432. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202001-0016oc

Rationale: Growth and development during adolescence may modify the respiratory and vascular differences seen among extremely preterm (EP) individuals in childhood and early adolescence.

Objective: To assess the trajectory of respiratory and cardi... Read More about Respiratory and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Survivors of Extremely Preterm Birth at 19 Years.

Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study (2020)
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Fermont, J. M., Bolton, C. E., Fisk, M., Mohan, D., Macnee, W., Cockcroft, J. R., …Müllerova, H. (2020). Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study. PLoS ONE, 15(2), e0228940. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228940

In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acute exacerbation of COPD requiring hospital admission is associated with mortality and healthcare costs. The ERICA study assessed multiple clinical measures in people with COPD, including the short... Read More about Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study.

Highlights 2019: fresh focus on health (2019)
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Palmer, J., Bolton, C. E., Shrestha, P., Adhikari, P., & Karmacharya, B. (2019). Highlights 2019: fresh focus on health. Lancet, 394(10216), 2219-2236. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2819%2933060-0

Contribution towards

Fresh focus on health: Highlights 2019 photography competition open for submissions.
Palmer J.
Lancet. 2019 Jun 8;393(10188):2284-2285. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31258-9. Epub 2019 Jun 6

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubm... Read More about Highlights 2019: fresh focus on health.

European Respiratory Society guideline on long term management of children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (2019)
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Duijts, L., van Meel, E. R., Moschino, L., Baraldi, E., Barnhoorn, M., Bramer, W. M., …Pijnenburg, M. W. (2020). European Respiratory Society guideline on long term management of children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia. European Respiratory Journal, 55(1), Article 1900788. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00788-2019

This document provides recommendations for monitoring and treatment of children in whom bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has been established and were discharged from the hospital, or who were older than 36 weeks of postmenstrual age. The guideline w... Read More about European Respiratory Society guideline on long term management of children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Building toolkits for COPD exacerbations: lessons from the past and present (2019)
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Sapey, E., Bafadhel, M., Bolton, C. E., Wilkinson, T., Hurst, J. R., & Quint, J. K. (2019). Building toolkits for COPD exacerbations: lessons from the past and present. Thorax, 74(9), 898-905. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-213035

In the nineteenth century, it was recognised that acute attacks of chronic bronchitis were harmful. 140 years later, it is clearer than ever that exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (ECOPD) are important events. They are associated... Read More about Building toolkits for COPD exacerbations: lessons from the past and present.

A Specific Proteinase 3 Activity Footprint in Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency (2019)
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Newby, P. R., Crossley, D., Crisford, H., Stockley, J. A., Mumford, R. A., Carter, R. I., …Stockley, R. A. (2019). A Specific Proteinase 3 Activity Footprint in Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency. ERJ Open Research, 5(3), Article 00095-2019. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00095-2019

Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency is a risk factor for emphysema due to tissue damage by serine proteases. Neutrophil elastase has long been considered the enzyme responsible. However, proteinase 3 also produces the pathological features of Chronic Obst... Read More about A Specific Proteinase 3 Activity Footprint in Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency.

Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review (2019)
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Pick, H. J., Bolton, C. E., Lim, W. S., & McKeever, T. M. (2019). Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review. European Respiratory Journal, 53(3), Article 1802165. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02165-2018

Symptomatic and functional recovery are important patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that are increasingly used as trial endpoints. This systematic review summarises the literature on PROMs in CAP.

Comp... Read More about Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review.

Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD (2018)
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Buss, L., McKeever, T. M., Nightingale, J., Akyea, R., Ollivere, B., Moppett, I., & Bolton, C. E. (2018). Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 121(6), 1377-1379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2018.09.008+hideArticle+Info

Hip fractures are common in patients with COPD and contemporary outcome data is needed. Patients admitted with a hip fracture to one acute trust (2010-2015) were assessed prospectively (UK National Hip Fracture Database audit) and mortality data col... Read More about Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD.

TAILS proteomics reveals dynamic changes in airway proteolysis controlling protease activity and innate immunity during COPD exacerbations (2018)
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Mallia-Milanes, B., Dufour, A., Philp, C., Solis, N., Klein, T., Fischer, M., …Johnson, S. R. (2018). TAILS proteomics reveals dynamic changes in airway proteolysis controlling protease activity and innate immunity during COPD exacerbations. AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 315(6), L1003-L1014. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00175.2018

© 2018 the American Physiological Society. Dys-regulated protease activity is thought to cause parenchymal and airway damage in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Multiple proteases have been implicated in COPD, and identifying their subst... Read More about TAILS proteomics reveals dynamic changes in airway proteolysis controlling protease activity and innate immunity during COPD exacerbations.

Fibrinogen does not relate to cardiovascular or muscle manifestations in COPD: cross-sectional data from the ERICA study (2018)
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Mohan, D., Forman, J. R., Allinder, M., McEniery, C. M., Bolton, C. E., Cockcroft, J. R., MacNee, W., Fuld, J., Marchong, M., Gale, N. S., Fisk, M., Nagarajan, S., Cheriyan, J., Lomas, D. A., Calverley, P. M., Miller, B. E., Tal-Singer, R., Wilkinson, I. B., & Polkey, M. I. (2018). Fibrinogen does not relate to cardiovascular or muscle manifestations in COPD: cross-sectional data from the ERICA study. Thorax, 73(12), 1182-1185. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-211556

Cardiovascular and skeletal muscle manifestations constitute important comorbidities in COPD, with systemic inflammation proposed as a common mechanistic link. Fibrinogen has prognostic role in COPD. We aimed to determine whether aortic stiffness and... Read More about Fibrinogen does not relate to cardiovascular or muscle manifestations in COPD: cross-sectional data from the ERICA study.

Risk of fall in patients with COPD (2018)
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Hakamy, A., Bolton, C. E., Gibson, J. E., & McKeever, T. M. (2018). Risk of fall in patients with COPD. Thorax, 73(11), 1079-1080. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-211008

A matched cohort study was conducted to determine the incidence of falls in patients following a diagnosis of COPD using a UK primary care database. 44 400 patients with COPD and 175 545 non-COPD subjects were identified. The incidence rate of fall p... Read More about Risk of fall in patients with COPD.

Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy (2018)
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Thomson, R. J., Aung, N., Sanghvi, M. M., Paiva, J. M., Lee, A. M., Fung, K., …Petersen, S. E. (2018). Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy. PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0194434. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194434

Background

Reduced lung function is common and associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, even in asymptomatic individuals without diagnosed respiratory disease. Previous studies have identified relationships between lung fu... Read More about Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy.

The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database (2017)
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Hakamy, A., McKeever, T. M., Gibson, J. E., & Bolton, C. E. (in press). The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 27(1), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-017-0058-2

Pulmonary rehabilitation is recommended for patients with COPD to improve physical function, breathlessness and quality of life. Using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database in UK, we compared the demographic and clinical paramet... Read More about The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database.

Autoantibodies of IgM and IgG classes show differences in recognition of multiple autoantigens in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2017)
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Shindi, R., Al-Mehairi, A., Negm, O. H., Kalsheker, N., Gale, N., Shale, D. J., …Fairclough, L. C. (2017). Autoantibodies of IgM and IgG classes show differences in recognition of multiple autoantigens in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clinical Immunology, 183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clim.2017.09.020

Autoimmunity occurs in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We describe an antigen microarray for detecting serum autoantibodies (AAbs) to determine how IgM, as well as IgG, AAbs distinguish patients with COPD from controls with a history of... Read More about Autoantibodies of IgM and IgG classes show differences in recognition of multiple autoantigens in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream (2017)
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Hakamy, A., McKeever, T. M., Steiner, M. C., Roberts, C. M., Singh, S. J., & Bolton, C. E. (in press). The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 12, https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S141620

Our aim was to evaluate the use and impact of the practice walk test on enrolment, completion, and clinical functional response to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) using the 2015 UK National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pulmonary Rehabil... Read More about The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream.

Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales (2017)
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Steiner, M. C., Lowe, D., Beckford, K., Blakey, J., Bolton, C. E., Elkin, S., Man, W. D. .-C., Roberts, C. M., Sewell, L., Walker, P., & Singh, S. J. (2017). Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales. Thorax, 72(6), 530-537. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209376

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves exercise capacity and health status in patients with COPD, but many patients assessed for PR do not complete therapy. It is unknown whether socioeconomic deprivation associates with rates of completi... Read More about Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales.

The Ser82 RAGE Variant Affects Lung Function and Serum RAGE in Smokers and sRAGE Production In Vitro (2016)
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Miller, S., Henry, A. P., Hodge, E., Kheirallah, A. K., Billington, C. K., Rimington, T. L., …Sayers, I. (2016). The Ser82 RAGE Variant Affects Lung Function and Serum RAGE in Smokers and sRAGE Production In Vitro. PLoS ONE, 11(10), Article e0164041. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164041

Introduction

Genome-Wide Association Studies have identified associations between lung function measures and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and chromosome region 6p21 containing the gene for the Advanced Glycation End Product Recepto... Read More about The Ser82 RAGE Variant Affects Lung Function and Serum RAGE in Smokers and sRAGE Production In Vitro.

The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation on mortality, balance, and risk of fall in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review (2016)
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Hakamy, A., Bolton, C. E., & McKeever, T. M. (2017). The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation on mortality, balance, and risk of fall in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1479972316661925

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation on survival and fall (including balance) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at stability.

Design: Systematic Review.

Methods: OVID, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and... Read More about The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation on mortality, balance, and risk of fall in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review.

Multiple Circulating Cytokines Are Coelevated in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2016)
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Selvarajah, S., Todd, I., Tighe, P. J., John, M., Bolton, C. E., Harrison, T. W., & Fairclough, L. C. (2016). Multiple Circulating Cytokines Are Coelevated in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Mediators of Inflammation, 2016, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/3604842

Inflammatory biomarkers, including cytokines, are associated with COPD, but the association of particular circulating cytokines with systemic pathology remains equivocal. To investigate this, we developed a protein microarray system to detect multipl... Read More about Multiple Circulating Cytokines Are Coelevated in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Circulating desmosine levels do not predict emphysema progression but are associated with cardiovascular risk and mortality in COPD (2016)
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Rabinovich, R. A., Miller, B. E., Wrobel, K., Ranjit, K., Williams, M. C., Drost,, E., …Huang, J. T. (in press). Circulating desmosine levels do not predict emphysema progression but are associated with cardiovascular risk and mortality in COPD. European Respiratory Journal, 47(5), https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01824-2015

Elastin degradation is a key feature of emphysema and may have a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Circulating desmosine is a specific biomarker of elastin degradation. We invest... Read More about Circulating desmosine levels do not predict emphysema progression but are associated with cardiovascular risk and mortality in COPD.

Traditional and emerging indicators of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2016)
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John, M., McKeever, T. M., Haddad, M. A., Hall, I. P., Sayers, I., Cockcroft, J. R., & Bolton, C. E. (2016). Traditional and emerging indicators of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1479972316636995

With the increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there is a priority to identify those patients at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Stable patients with COPD (n = 1... Read More about Traditional and emerging indicators of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12 (2016)
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Jackson, V. E., Ntalla, I., Sayers, I., Morris, R., Whincup, P., Casas, J.-P., Amuzu, A., Choi, M., Dale, C., Kumari, M., Engmann, J., Kalsheker, N., Chappell, S., Guetta-Baranes, T., McKeever, T. M., Palmer, C. N., Tavendale, R., Holloway, J. W., Sayer, A. A., Dennison, E. M., …Wain, L. V. (in press). Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12. Thorax, 71(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207876

Background

Several regions of the genome have shown to be associated with COPD in genome-wide association studies of common variants.

Objective

To determine rare and potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated... Read More about Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12.

Cardiovascular and inflammatory effects of simvastatin therapy in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial. (2015)
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John, M., Cockcroft, J. R., McKeever, T. M., Coward, W. R., Shale, D. J., Johnson, S. R., …Bolton, C. E. (2015). Cardiovascular and inflammatory effects of simvastatin therapy in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S76061

BACKGROUND:

There is excess cardiovascular mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Aortic stiffness, an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk, and systemic and airway inflammation are increased in patients with the... Read More about Cardiovascular and inflammatory effects of simvastatin therapy in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial..

Target renal damage: the microvascular associations of increased aortic stiffness in patients with COPD (2013)
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John, M., Hussain, S., Prayle, A., Simms, R., Cockroft, J. R., & Bolton, C. E. (2013). Target renal damage: the microvascular associations of increased aortic stiffness in patients with COPD. Respiratory Research, 14(31), https://doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-14-31

Background
Although renal impairment has been described in COPD, there is opportunity to evaluate further to determine nature and consider optimal management. Increased aortic stiffness, as seen in COPD, leads to reduced buffering of pulsatile flow.... Read More about Target renal damage: the microvascular associations of increased aortic stiffness in patients with COPD.