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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.

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.

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.

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., …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 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., …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.