Thorax

Article	Citations
Vaping and CBD: can new technology overcome old problems?	142
Case-based discussion: neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for undiagnosed recalcitrant pulmonary hypertension—management challenges	127
E-cigarette use in young adults and adolescents: not so safe?	124
Journal club	124
Fibrosing mediastinitis: ‘haemoptysis in the Heartland’	117
Strengthening the evidence base to support stronger regulation of social media based advertising of e-cigarette products to youth	97
Beware, vaping e-cigarettes around children is adversely impacting their lung health	89
Neuropsychiatric diagnoses after montelukast initiation in paediatric patients with asthma	73
Ablation for lung cancer: hot or cold intervention	73
Correction:British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2023	68
Rectal organoid morphometric analysis (ROMA)—re: optimising measurements automatically	68
Lung development genes, adult lung function and cardiovascular comorbidities	68
Complex coexistence of COPD and cardiovascular disease	67
Emulated trial investigating effects of multiple treatments: estimating combined effects of mucoactive nebulisers in cystic fibrosis using registry data	65
TB PCR in BAL and EBUS-TBNA samples for the diagnosis of pulmonary and mediastinal lymph node TB: retrospective TRiBE study	62
Automatic oxygen titration versus constant oxygen flow rates during walking in COPD: a randomised controlled, double-blind, crossover trial	56
British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease	56
Ambient heat exposure and COPD hospitalisations in England: a nationwide case-crossover study during 2007–2018	51
Ultra-low-dose CT versus chest X-ray for patients suspected of pulmonary disease at the emergency department: a multicentre randomised clinical trial	50
Highlights from this issue	49
Correction:RAGE-induced ILC2 expansion in acute lung injury due to haemorrhagic shock	49
Association between vitamin D status at 3 years and eosinophilic asthma in 6-year-old children with a history of severe bronchiolitis	48
Muscle memory: genetic factors underlying functional impairment in COPD	47
Short-term exposure to ultrafine particles and asthma hospital admissions in children in Copenhagen, Denmark	46
Ageing and ivacaftor: unravelling the long-term effects	46

Airflow obstruction, impaired lung function and risk of sudden cardiac death: a prospective cohort study	45
BTS Clinical Statement on air travel for passengers with respiratory disease	45
Lower airway microbiota in COPD and healthy controls	44
Implications of the 2022 lung function update and GLI global reference equations among patients with interstitial lung disease	42
Differentiation of malignant from benign pleural effusions based on artificial intelligence	42
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	40
Toxic metals and lung health: silent poisons?	39
Lung function as independent predictor of cardiovascular disease risk: implications for practice and policy	39
Paediatric asthma hospitalisations continue to decrease in Finland and Sweden between 2015 and 2020	39
Activation of epithelial and inflammatory pathways in adolescent elite athletes exposed to intense exercise and air pollution	38
COPD in Africa: risk factors, hospitalisation, readmission and associated outcomes—a systematic review and meta-analysis	37
Intensive care unit interventions to promote sleep and circadian biology in reducing incident delirium: a scoping review	37
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with suboptimal asthma care in the UK: the SABINA healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study	37
Impact of sex on severe asthma: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of UK primary and specialist care	37
Functional impairment in COPD can be predicted using genomic-derived data	36
Past, present and future of conservative oxygen therapy in critical care	36
Human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical dysplasia in adult female cystic fibrosis (CF) lung transplant recipients	35
Sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults with intellectual disability: mind the gap!	35
Parenchymal lung abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 and viral pneumonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Invasive pulmonary infection caused byTrichoderma longibrachiatum	34
Case of hot tub lung showing a shadow distribution consistent with unequal ventilation	34
Air athletes breathe: weighing benefits against harm	34
Correction:British thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2022	33
Highlights from this issue	33
Testosterone and lung function: bigger lungs, slower decline or some combination of both?	32
Journal club	31
Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency	31
Quantitative BAL: a suitable method for the assessment of epithelial lining fluid in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?	31
A syndrome by any other name: playing the long-term outcome CARDS	31
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of biologic and targeted synthetic therapies in sarcoidosis	31
Recent trends in asthma diagnosis, preschool wheeze diagnosis and asthma exacerbations in English children and adolescents: a SABINA Jr study	30
Web-based physical activity promotion in young people with CF: a randomised controlled trial	30
Smart steps forward: the role of wearables in long-term rehabilitation after lung transplantation	30
Basement membrane repair response biomarker PRO-C4 predicts progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PFBIO and PROFILE cohorts	30
Early experience of a new national lung allocation scheme in the UK based on clinical urgency	29
Impact of ambient air pollution on lung function in preterm-born school-aged children	29
Topological data analysis identifies molecular phenotypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	29
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation	28
Disadvantage in early-life and persistent asthma in adolescents: a UK cohort study	28
Journal club	28
Journal club	28
Returning to work following critical illness: milestone or millstone?	28
Management of a complex thoracic infection, one compartment at a time	26
Comparing tests in the absence of a reference standard	26
Heat-related hospitalisations for asthma – challenges for research	25
Silicone depositions: an unusual finding in the explanted and newly transplanted lungs	25
Untangling the web between menopause and respiratory disease	25
Understanding the effectiveness of different exercise training programme designs on V̇O2peakin COPD: a component network meta-analysis	24
Comprehensive analysis of environmental exposure to hazardous trace elements and lung function: a national cross-sectional study	24
Association of fluoroquinolones with the risk of spontaneous pneumothorax: nationwide case–time–control study	24

Combined effect of ozone and household air pollution on COPD in people aged less than 50 years old	24
Effect of CRTH2 antagonism on the response to experimental rhinovirus infection in asthma: a pilot randomised controlled trial	24
Effect of simvastatin on postoperative complications in patients undergoing one-lung ventilation during surgery: the Prevention HARP-2 randomised controlled trial	24
Effects of traditional mind–body movement therapy on chronic cardiopulmonary dyspnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis	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
Establishing the exposure–outcome relation between airborne particulate matter and children’s health	23
Exploring the challenges of accessing medication for patients with cystic fibrosis	23
Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community	23
Global and regional burden of interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019	22
Mediators of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD): systematic review and meta-analyses	22
Reduced lung function and health-related quality of life after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambian children: a cross-sectional comparative study	22
Searching, again, for answers in all the wrong places	22
Effects of azithromycin in severe eosinophilic asthma with concomitant monoclonal antibody treatment	22
Observational UK cohort study to describe intermittent oral corticosteroid prescribing patterns and their association with adverse outcomes in asthma	22
Fixing lung health in the UK: accelerating respiratory research and innovation	22
QCOVID in Scotland: time to recalibrate our expectations?	21
Correction:Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data	21
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on lung cancer survival in England: an analysis of the rapid cancer registration dataset	21
Evaluation of a health and social care programme to improve outcomes following critical illness: a multicentre study	21
Journal club	21
Epithelial damage and ageing: the perfect storm	21
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation during outpatient-managed acute COPD exacerbation: the latest new PR model?	20
Maternal prenatal carotenoids and child lung function: exploration of modifying factors	20
Derivation and validation of a simple multidimensional index incorporating exercise capacity parameters for survival prediction in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	20
Variability in forced expiratory volume in 1 s in children with symptomatically well-controlled asthma	20
Rare case of bilateral lung nodules	20
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
Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the host response in severe community-acquired pneumonia	20
Inequalities in care and the burden of wheeze and asthma in young children from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds	20
MUC5B, telomere length and longitudinal quantitative interstitial lung changes: the MESA Lung Study	20
Effect of time of day and seasonal variation on bronchodilator responsiveness: the SPIRO-TIMETRY study	20
Variability in sensitivity to inflammation in muscle and lung of patients with COPD may underlie susceptibility to lung function decline	20
Cause-specific mortality in COPD subpopulations: a cohort study of 339 647 people in England	19
COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multiciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors	19
What’s new in pleural disease?	19
Highlights from this issue	18
Time to move out of the shadows: ILA in patients with lung cancer	18
New statement and new hope for patients with refractory chronic cough	18
Selective androgen receptor modulation for muscle weakness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised control trial	18
Correction: What’s hot that the other lot got	17
Challenging the gold standard: the limitations of molecular assays for detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisheteroresistance	17
Circulating miRNAs and childhood asthma ICS response: a stratified analysis in the intervention arm of an RCT with vitamin D effect modification	17
Atopic and non-atopic effects of fish oil supplementation during pregnancy	17
Does impaired respiratory function lead to sudden cardiac death?	17
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation on endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy	17
Persistent alveolar inflammatory response in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is associated with mortality	17
Classifying ARDS by dynamic or static oxygenation impairment or are other approaches needed for greater value	16
Computational fluid dynamics model predictions of inhaled corticosteroid deposition in patients with severe asthma	16
Novel electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy system for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodules: a prospective, multicentre study	16
Use of inhaled corticosteroids and risk of acquiringPseudomonas aeruginosain patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	15
Sex differences in COPD in relation to smoking exposure: a population-based cohort study	15
Identifying a hyperinflammatory subphenotype of ARDS associated with worse outcomes: may ferritin help?	15
Effects of exercise training in people with non-small cell lung cancer before lung resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
High-flow nasal oxygen: benefits are hard to show in COVID-19 patients with mild hypoxaemia	15
Circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a new association	15
British Thoracic Society Guideline for diagnosing and monitoring paediatric sleep-disordered breathing	15
Airflow obstruction and small airway dysfunction following pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross-sectional survey	15
Children’s charter for lung health	15
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
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations may be the only clinical criterion present in genetically confirmed hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia	14
Collagen neoepitopes in sarcoidosis: what do they tell us?	14
Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success?	14
Reversible bronchiectasis	14
Effects of enhanced recovery after surgery plus pulmonary rehabilitation on complications after video-assisted lung cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised controlled trial	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
Journal club	14
Angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery as an unexpected evolution of an apparent pulmonary thromboembolism	14
Role of inflammasomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome	13
Clinical presentation and prognosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients with concomitant upper-extremity versus lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis	13
Symptom-related screening programme for early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism: the SYSPPE study	13
Type-2 inflammation: a key treatable trait associated with lung function decline in chronic airways disease	13
Bacterial biofilms predominate in both acute and chronic human lung infections	13
Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study	13
Improving uptake of lung cancer screening: an observational study on the impact of timed appointments and reminders	13
A prospective longitudinal study of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in pulmonary tuberculosis in Indonesia (APICAL)	13
Asthma exacerbations are associated with a decline in lung function: a longitudinal population-based study	13
Advanced MicroRNA delivery for lung inflammatory therapy: surfactant protein A controls cellular internalisation and degradation of extracellular vesicles	13
Air pollution, genetic susceptibility and risk of progression from asthma to COPD	13

Lung epithelial cells interact with immune cells and bacteria to shape the microenvironment in tuberculosis	13
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
Risk of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and other interstitial lung diseases following organic dust exposure	12
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	12
Correction:Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma	12
Journal club	12
Altered purine metabolism at reperfusion affects clinical outcome in lung transplantation	12
Journal club	12
Opportunistic actinomycosis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis	12
Remote vision-based digital patient monitoring of pulse and respiratory rates in acute medical wards	12
Consolidation with pseudocavitation	12
Disease monitoring using lung function trajectory in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: assessment in two national cohorts	11
Optimising breathlessness triggered services for older people with advanced diseases: a multicentre economic study (OPTBreathe)	11
Comparative estimate of glucose-lowering therapies on risk of incident pneumonia and severe sepsis: an analysis of real-world cohort data	11
Journal club	11
Immediate smoking cessation support during lung cancer screening: long-term outcomes from two randomised controlled trials	11
Definition of diaphragmatic sleep disordered breathing and clinical meaning in Duchenne muscular dystrophy	11
Automatic analysis of bronchus-artery dimensions to diagnose and monitor airways disease in cystic fibrosis	11
Respiratory and allergic outcomes among 5-year-old children exposed to pesticides	11
Improvements of the shape and strength of the diaphragm after endoscopic lung volume reduction	11
Journal club	11
Oscillatory positive expiratory pressure therapy in COPD (O-COPD): a randomised controlled trial	11
Optimised oxygenation improves functional capacity during daily activities in patients with COPD on long-term oxygen therapy: a randomised crossover trial	11
Combining tuberculin skin test with follow-on interferon gamma release assay markedly improves screening of household contacts	11
Infections due to dysregulated immunity: an emerging complication of cancer immunotherapy	11
Journal club	11
Future risk projection to engage �near-miss� individuals in lung cancer screening eligibility: an analysis of ILST data	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
Association of circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	10
Impact of COPD on cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in people with established cardiovascular disease	10
Common idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis risk variants are associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis	10
Tobacco industry ownership of pharmaceutical companies: an international survey of people with respiratory disease	10
Impacts of sex and gender on severe asthma	10
Post-pandemic tuberculosis incidence: potential success of active case finding?	10
Mild elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance predicts mortality regardless of mean pulmonary artery pressure in mild interstitial lung disease	10
High-dose rifamycins in the treatment of TB: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Environmental pollutants exposure-derived extracellular vesicles: crucial players in respiratory disorders	10
Persistent hypoxaemia and a headache in a previously healthy 11-year-old girl	10
Higher SARS-CoV-2 detection of oropharyngeal compared with nasopharyngeal or saliva specimen for molecular testing: a multicentre randomised comparative accuracy study	10
Spontaneous intrapulmonary haemorrhage in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome	10
Bacterial multiplex polymerase chain reaction tests for the diagnosis and management of pneumonia: ready for prime time?	10
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
Multicentre evaluation of two multiplex PCR platforms for the rapid microbiological investigation of nosocomial pneumonia in UK ICUs: the INHALE WP1 study	9
Antenatal exposures to tobacco and biomass or fossil fuels and wheezing in early childhood in South Africa	9
Cost-effectiveness of ambulatory care management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: an open-label, randomised controlled trial	9
All that pops is not necessarily a pneumothorax!	9
Cardiac MRI in the assessment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and response to treatment	9
In search of the elusive biomarker(s): a proteomics analysis in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease	9
Airway inflammation in severe asthmatics with acid gastro-oesophageal reflux	9
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on occupational asthma	9
Patient stratification using plasma cytokines and their regulators in sepsis: relationship to outcomes, treatment effect and leucocyte transcriptomic subphenotypes	9
Antibiotic pharmacokinetics in infected pleural effusions	9
Extensive airway remodelling in severe COPD imparts resiliency to environmental stressors	9
Decoding pulmonary nodules: can machine learning enhance malignancy risk stratification?	9
Highlights from this issue	9
What shall we learn from TEACH?	9
Pulmonary tuberculosis associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a pharmacovigilance study	9
Rare occurrence of tracheal acinic cell carcinoma causing central airway obstruction in a young adult	9
Rebound in asthma exacerbations following relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal population-based study (COVIDENCE UK)	9
Chronic berylliosis disease: uncommon pulmonary granulomas beyond sarcoidosis	9
Tracheal stenosis after endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration	9
Xpert Ultra for diagnosing tuberculosis at bronchoscopy: thoughts on practical applications	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
One-step closer to solve the mystery of predicting disease progression in systemic sclerosis associated interstitial lung disease?	8
Pleural and transpulmonary pressures to tailor protective ventilation in children	8
Relationship between exhaled volatile organic compounds and lung function change in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	8
Diagnosis and treatment outcomes from prebronchodilator spirometry performed alongside lung cancer screening in a Lung Health Check programme	8
Th2 high and mast cell gene signatures are associated with corticosteroid sensitivity in COPD	8
Endobronchial obstruction of the left middle lobe	8
Grappling with the granuloma: where is the ACE in the hole?	8
Metabolomic differences in lung function metrics: evidence from two cohorts	8
Associations of interstitial lung disease subtype and CT pattern with lung function and survival	8
Serum cytokine biosignatures for identification of tuberculosis among HIV-positive inpatients	8
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
Accuracy of Xpert Ultra for the diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in a low TB burden country: a prospective multicentre study	8
Examining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on community virus prevalence and healthcare utilisation reveals that peaks in asthma, COPD and respiratory tract infection occur with the re-emergence of	8
Association of positive airway pressure termination with mortality and non-fatal cardiovascular events in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea	8
Non-cigarette tobacco products, aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene methylation and smoking-related health outcomes	8
Eosinophilia and fractional exhaled nitric oxide levels in chronic obstructive lung disease	8
Understanding the aetiology of lung function impairment: the crucial role of age of onset	8
Benefit–harm analysis of azithromycin for the prevention of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	8
Endoplasmic reticulum-unfolded protein response signalling is altered in severe eosinophilic and neutrophilic asthma	8
Risk factors for atopic and non-atopic asthma in school-age children from high-income and low- and middle-income countries	8
Air pollution and respiratory health in patients with COPD: should we focus on indoor or outdoor sources?	8
Pneumococcal pneumonia trends in adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia over 10 years (2013–2023) and the role of serotype 3	7
Protective effect of height on long-term survival of resectable lung cancer: a new feature of the lung cancer paradox	7
Periodic hemidiaphragmatic paresis: a puzzling diaphragm	7
COPD in the chromosomes	7
Effects of long-term oxygen therapy on acute exacerbation and hospital burden: the national DISCOVERY study	7
COVID-19 associated phrenic nerve mononeuritis: a case series	7
Diagnostic accuracy of focused deep venous, lung, cardiac and multiorgan ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7