Podcast: Highlights from the 2021 TSANZSRS Conference

Tackling some of the biggest global challenges - from respiratory health in the face of climate change to fighting big tobacco and COVID-19 as well as highlighting important developments in respiratory genetics and technology - this year's TSANZSRS conference covered...

Tackling some of the biggest global challenges - from respiratory health in the face of climate change to fighting big...

Public Health

News in brief: Screen OSA patients for primary aldosteronism; Fibrinogen levels predict COPD exacerbations; Vapers given six months notice

Screening after sleep studies will reveal primary aldosteronism People with both hypertension and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) should be routinely screened for primary aldosteronism (PA). A prospective study of 85 patients referred for sleep studies found the proportion of the total cohort...

Screening after sleep studies will reveal primary aldosteronism People with both hypertension and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) should be routinely screened...

Asthma

GINA update offers two-track approach to ICS-formoterol in asthma

An update of the Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention has adopted a two-track approach for treatment of adults and adolescents. In the report from the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), Track 1 features low dose combination ICS-formoterol as the...

An update of the Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention has adopted a two-track approach for treatment of adults...

COPD

Differences in sputum microbiome associated with bronchiectasis severity

Reduced sputum microbiome diversity is associated with greater disease severity in bronchiectasis, according to a new prospective study. It was also associated with a higher frequency and severity of exacerbations, as well as the risk of death. "Given the central role...

Reduced sputum microbiome diversity is associated with greater disease severity in bronchiectasis, according to a new prospective study. It was...