This British Thoracic Society (BTS) Clinical Statement addresses the diagnosis, evaluation
and management of respiratory problems in athletic individuals. The overall …

Introduction Asthma is a chronic airways disease characterized by episodes of wheeze,
chest tightness, and evidence of reversible airflow obstruction. Symptoms are frequently …

Background Many patients with cough variant asthma (CVA) are underdiagnosed and
undertreated due to the atypical symptoms, low diagnostic sensitivity of bronchodilator …

Introduction This systematic review summarises and appraises methods of citric acid cough
reflex testing (CRT) documented in published literature. Methods Electronic databases …

Background Subjects with chronic respiratory symptoms and preserved pulmonary function
(PPF) may have small airway dysfunction (SAD). As the most common means to detect SAD …

Background Athletes are at risk for developing exercise-induced lower airway narrowing.
The diagnostic assessment of such lower airway dysfunction (LAD) requires an objective …

Airway oscillometry has become the de facto standard for quality assessment of lung
physiology in laboratory animals and has demonstrated its usefulness in understanding …

Asthma affects 340 million people worldwide and varies in time. Twenty years ago, in
Canada, the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean asthma family cohort was created to study the …

Background Because spirometric parameters fail to address current status of asthma in
some patients, additional tests are required for better evaluation of asthma. Objective We …

Background Considerable variability exists between asthma diagnostic guidelines. We
tested the performance characteristics of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the …