Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on October 15, 2002
Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease: prospective study of a distinct preexisting syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2008) 4.33
Gender and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: why it matters. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2007) 2.80
Sex differences in severe pulmonary emphysema. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2007) 2.77
It's all about sex: gender, lung development and lung disease. Trends Endocrinol Metab (2007) 1.72
Respiratory and general health impairments of ragpickers in India: a study in Delhi. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2004) 1.62
Eosinophilic airway inflammation in COPD. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis (2006) 1.61
Idiopathic chronic cough: association with organ specific autoimmune disease and bronchoalveolar lymphocytosis. Thorax (2003) 1.19
Influence of sex on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk and treatment outcomes. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis (2014) 1.11
Sex differences and sex steroids in lung health and disease. Endocr Rev (2012) 1.07
COPD is associated with production of autoantibodies to a broad spectrum of self-antigens, correlative with disease phenotype. Immunol Res (2013) 0.99
Non-eosinophilic asthma and the innate immune response. Thorax (2007) 0.92
Study of the burden on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Clin Pract (2009) 0.91
Prevalence and global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease group distribution of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease detected by preoperative pulmonary function test. PLoS One (2015) 0.87
Increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a population-based cohort study. PLoS One (2014) 0.85
Effects of puberty on cystic fibrosis related pulmonary exacerbations in women versus men. Pediatr Pulmonol (2013) 0.80
Airway function and markers of airway inflammation in patients with treated hypothyroidism. Thorax (2005) 0.79
Hormonal influences on lung function and response to environmental agents: lessons from animal models of respiratory disease. Proc Am Thorac Soc (2009) 0.79
Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Female Adults With Primary Sjögren Syndrome: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study. Medicine (Baltimore) (2016) 0.78
Prevalence of colorectal adenomatous polyps in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis (2015) 0.77
Association of the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Lung Function and Exacerbations in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. PLoS One (2016) 0.76
COPD immunopathology. Semin Immunopathol (2016) 0.75
Efficacy and safety of moxifloxacin in acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: a prospective, multicenter, observational study (AVANTI). BMC Pulm Med (2013) 0.75
COPD in Nonsmokers: Reports from the Tunisian Population-Based Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease Study. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Pulmonary Function and Incidence of Selected Respiratory Diseases Depending on the Exposure to Ambient PM10. Int J Mol Sci (2016) 0.75
Comparison of chest CT findings in nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases vs. Mycobacterium tuberculosis lung disease in HIV-negative patients with cavities. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials and clinical practice. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2009) 9.38
Asthma exacerbations and sputum eosinophil counts: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet (2002) 8.57
Mepolizumab and exacerbations of refractory eosinophilic asthma. N Engl J Med (2009) 8.36
Oral prednisolone for preschool children with acute virus-induced wheezing. N Engl J Med (2009) 7.24
Mast-cell infiltration of airway smooth muscle in asthma. N Engl J Med (2002) 6.52
Elevated sputum interleukin-5 and submucosal eosinophilia in obese individuals with severe asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2013) 4.95
Oral glucocorticoid-sparing effect of mepolizumab in eosinophilic asthma. N Engl J Med (2014) 4.95
Effectiveness and safety of bronchial thermoplasty in the treatment of severe asthma: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2009) 4.83
Evidence of a role of tumor necrosis factor alpha in refractory asthma. N Engl J Med (2006) 4.83
Asthma control during the year after bronchial thermoplasty. N Engl J Med (2007) 4.79
Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function. Nat Genet (2009) 4.10
Carbon in airway macrophages and lung function in children. N Engl J Med (2006) 4.02
Diagnosis and management of cough executive summary: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest (2006) 3.59
Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: identification of biologic clusters and their biomarkers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2011) 3.58
Mepolizumab treatment in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma. N Engl J Med (2014) 3.50
Asthma endotypes: a new approach to classification of disease entities within the asthma syndrome. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2011) 3.35
Refining the definition of hypereosinophilic syndrome. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2010) 2.74
Fungi and allergic lower respiratory tract diseases. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2012) 2.68
Prevalence, pathogenesis, and causes of chronic cough. Lancet (2008) 2.60
The use of exhaled nitric oxide to guide asthma management: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2007) 2.44
Pathological features and inhaled corticosteroid response of eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic asthma. Thorax (2007) 2.37
Exhaled nitric oxide in pulmonary diseases: a comprehensive review. Chest (2010) 2.29
Expression of the chemokine receptors CCR4, CCR5, and CXCR3 by human tissue-infiltrating lymphocytes. Am J Pathol (2002) 2.28
Efficacy of a short course of parent-initiated oral prednisolone for viral wheeze in children aged 1-5 years: randomised controlled trial. Lancet (2003) 2.27
Periostin is a systemic biomarker of eosinophilic airway inflammation in asthmatic patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2012) 2.24
Genome-wide protein QTL mapping identifies human plasma kallikrein as a post-translational regulator of serum uPAR levels. FASEB J (2013) 2.16
Antiinflammatory effects of the phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor cilomilast (Ariflo) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2003) 2.13
Effect of five genetic variants associated with lung function on the risk of chronic obstructive lung disease, and their joint effects on lung function. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2011) 2.07
Induced sputum inflammatory mediator concentrations in chronic cough. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2003) 1.98
The CXCL10/CXCR3 axis mediates human lung mast cell migration to asthmatic airway smooth muscle. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2005) 1.95
TH2 cytokine expression in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid T lymphocytes and bronchial submucosa is a feature of asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2002) 1.92
Increased sputum and bronchial biopsy IL-13 expression in severe asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2008) 1.92
IgE sensitization to Aspergillus fumigatus is associated with reduced lung function in asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2010) 1.91
Macrophage and mast-cell invasion of tumor cell islets confers a marked survival advantage in non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol (2005) 1.87
Antiinflammatory effects of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate in chronic obstructive lung disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 1.86
Severe asthma in adults: what are the important questions? J Allergy Clin Immunol (2007) 1.85
Blood eosinophils to direct corticosteroid treatment of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2012) 1.85
The influence of age on induced sputum differential cell counts in normal subjects. Chest (2004) 1.82
Airway hyperresponsiveness is dissociated from airway wall structural remodeling. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2008) 1.76
Expression of the T helper 17-associated cytokines IL-17A and IL-17F in asthma and COPD. Chest (2010) 1.73
Noneosinophilic asthma: a distinct clinical and pathologic phenotype. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2007) 1.71
Eosinophilic airway inflammation in COPD. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis (2006) 1.61
Adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human airway epithelial cells exposed to urban particulate matter. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2011) 1.60
Pivotal Advance: Expansion of small sputum macrophages in CF: failure to express MARCO and mannose receptors. J Leukoc Biol (2009) 1.56
Airway smooth muscle and mast cell-derived CC chemokine ligand 19 mediate airway smooth muscle migration in asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 1.53
Detection of cough signals in continuous audio recordings using hidden Markov models. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng (2006) 1.53
Sputum and bronchial submucosal IL-13 expression in asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2004) 1.52
Association between neutrophilic airway inflammation and airflow limitation in adults with asthma. Chest (2007) 1.46
Peptic ulceration, Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respirology (2013) 1.45
Bronchial thermoplasty: Long-term safety and effectiveness in patients with severe persistent asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2013) 1.45
C3a, mast cells, and asthma. FASEB J (2005) 1.42
Increased expression of immunoreactive thymic stromal lymphopoietin in patients with severe asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2011) 1.38
A comparison of the validity of different diagnostic tests in adults with asthma. Chest (2002) 1.36
Mast cells promote airway smooth muscle cell differentiation via autocrine up-regulation of TGF-beta 1. J Immunol (2008) 1.34
An empiric integrative approach to the management of cough: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest (2006) 1.33
Cooperative molecular and cellular networks regulate Toll-like receptor-dependent inflammatory responses. FASEB J (2006) 1.30
Functional transient receptor potential melastatin 7 channels are critical for human mast cell survival. J Immunol (2007) 1.30
Long-term (5 year) safety of bronchial thermoplasty: Asthma Intervention Research (AIR) trial. BMC Pulm Med (2011) 1.24
Human airway smooth muscle promotes human lung mast cell survival, proliferation, and constitutive activation: cooperative roles for CADM1, stem cell factor, and IL-6. J Immunol (2008) 1.23