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In a meta-analysis of national cohort studies on COVID-19 vaccination across the UK (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), undervaccination was associated with a higher risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes (ie, COVID-19 hospitalization or death) relative to full vaccination.

Use of gabapentinoid can potentially elevate the risk for severe exacerbation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), suggests a study.

Parental smoking, maternal asthma, and frequent lower respiratory tract infections before the age of 7 years are predictive of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) development during adulthood, suggests a study.

Maintaining good cardiovascular health (CVH) can help avert incident adult-onset asthma (AOA) regardless of a person’s asthma genetic risks, according to a study.

In critically ill patients who have been on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) for at least 3 days, a subsequent 3-day course of preventive inhaled amikacin reduced the burden of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) during 28 days of follow-up, findings from the AMIKINHAL trial have shown.