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Introducing ‘Lung Facts’: A new web-based resource from the International Respiratory Coalition, presenting key epidemiological and economic data for major respiratory conditions across World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, and by each WHO Europe country.

Dear colleague, As a founding partner of the International Respiratory Coalition (IRC), the European Respiratory Society is pleased to share the new Lung Facts resource with you – now available on the official IRC…

Risk factors associated with comorbid asthma in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: a cross-sectional study

Research – Open Access Fangyuan Li, Xuechen Wang, Shen Shen, Kai Huang, Ming Wang, Xiaofang Liu, Chengshuo Wang, Jianmin Jin & Luo Zhang  BMC Pulmonary Medicine volume 22, Article number: 338 (2022)  Abstract Background Although 20–60% of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps…

Differences in L-arginine metabolism and asthma morbidity among asthma patients with and without obstructive sleep apnea

Meghan D. Althoff, Guillermo Jimenez, Ryan Peterson, Ying Jin, Hartmut Grasemann, Sunita Sharma, Alex D. Federman, Juan P. Wisnivesky & Fernando Holguin  Respiratory Research volume 23, Article number: 230 (2022)  Abstract Background Imbalance in L-arginine and nitric oxide (NO) metabolism has been implicated in…

Microbiome, Metabolism, and Immunoregulation of Asthma: An American Thoracic Society and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Workshop Report

Ariangela J Kozik, Fernando Holguin, Leopoldo N Segal, Talal A Chatila, Anne E Dixon, James E Gern, Catherine Lozupone, Nicholas Lukacs, Carey Lumeng, Philip L Molyneaux, Nichole Reisdorph, Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, Alkis Togias, Yvonne J Huang Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Aug;67(2):155-163. Abstract…

Characterisation of the Australian Adult Population Living with Asthma: Severe – Exacerbation Frequency, Long-Term OCS Use and Adverse Effects

Kerry L Hancock, 1 Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, 2 , 3 , 4 John D Blakey, 5 , 6 Mark Hew, 7 , 8 Li Ping Chung, 9 Biljana Cvetkovski, 3 Scott Claxton, 10 Peter Del Fante, 11 Eve Denton, 7 , 8 Joe Doan, 12 Kanchanamala Ranasinghe, 13 , 14 Lucy Morgan, 15 , 16 , 17 Anita Sharma, 18 Peter K Smith, 19 Deb Stewart, 20 Philip J…