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Prevalence of type 2 multimorbidities in COPD compared to asthma and relationship to blood eosinophilic counts

ERJOR

11 June 2026

David M. G. Halpin, Jaspreet Kaur, Heath Heatley, Freya Tyrer, Cono Ariti, Rachel Pullen, Shelly Pathak, Victoria Carter and David Price

Pub Med

Geographical variability in severe asthma: comparison of patients’ characteristics between national, regional and international cohorts in ISAR

J Asthma

22 April 2026

Maria Kallieri, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Eleftherios Zervas, Konstantinos P. Exarchos, Mina Gaga, Konstantinos Kostikas, Athena Gogali, Aggelos A. Ladias, Konstantinos Tatsis, Fotios E. Psarros, Michael Makris, Maria Ntakoula, Petros Bakakos, Lampros Kalogiros, Giannis Paraskevopoulos, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Enrico Heffler, João A. Fonseca, Nuria Marina Malanda, Borja G. Cosio, David B. Price, Victoria Carter, Ghislaine Scelo, Dominic A. Friston, Aaron Beastall, Stelios Loukides, Andriana I. Papaioannou.

At-Risk Registers Integrated into primary care to Stop Asthma crises in the UK (ARRISA-UK): national cluster randomised controlled trial

Thorax

15 April 2026

Andrew Wilson, Stanley Musgrave, Jane R. Smith, Michael Noble, Allan Clark, Susan Stirling, Polly-Anna Ashford, Garry Barton, Chris Griffiths, Hilary Pinnock, David Price, Aziz Sheikh, Samantha Walker.

Projecting the 20-Year Economic Burden of Asthma and COPD Multimorbidity: Insights from Singapore for Integrated Chronic Care in Asia

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

9 April 2026

Yah Ru Juang, Laura Huey Mien Lim, Sanjay H. Chotirmall, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Mariko Siyue Koh, John A. Abisheganaden, David B. Price, Ming-Ju Tsai, Mei Fong Liew, Pei Yee Tiew, Anthony Chau Ang Yii & Wenjia Chen

Pub Med

Reply to Liu et al., Zhou et al., and Dong et al.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med

26 March 2026

Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Trung N. Tran, Ghislaine Scelo, David B. Price

Development and validation of the Risk of Exacerbation in Severe Asthma (RESA) model

J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract

26 March 2026

Wenjia Chen, Tae Yoon Lee, David B. Price, Richard Beasley, Christer Janson, Mariko Siyue Koh, Chandra Prakash Yadav, Hana Müllerová, Pierre-Regis Burgel, Trung N. Tran, Benjamin Emmanuel, Eileen Wang, Michael E. Wechsler, David J. Jackson, John Busby, Liam G. Heaney, Paul E. Pfeffer, Bassam Mahboub, Diahn-Warng Perng, Borja G. Cosio, Luis Perez-de-Llano, Riyad Al-Lehebi, Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, Mona Al-Ahmad, Chin Kook Rhee, Takashi Iwanaga, Enrico Heffler, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Richard W. Costello, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Andriana I. Papaioannou, Celeste M. Porsbjerg, Carlos A. Torres-Duque, George C. Christoff, Todor A. Popov, Mark Hew, Matthew J. Peters, Peter G. Gibson, Jorge Máspero, Celine Bergeron, Saraid Cerda Reyes, Elvia Angelica Contreras Contreras, Mohsen Sadatsafavi.

Severe asthma patients’ characteristics in Mexico versus International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) Global

Curr Allergy Asthma Rep

19 March 2026

Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, Saraid Cerda Reyes, Nidia K. Castillón-Benavides, Elvia Angelica Contreras Contreras, Ulises N. García-Ramírez, Lilia M. Borboa Olivares, Nadia Aguilar-Hinojosa, Karen L. Rivera-Alvarado, Itzel V. Ochoa-García, María de la Luz García-Cruz, Ricardo Campos-Cerda, Claudine I. Nava-Ramírez, Yair H. González-Tuyub, Victor González-Uribe, Hugo A. Azuara-Trujillo, Claudia Jiménez, Elsy M. Navarrete-Rodríguez, Blanca E. Del Río-Navarro, Laura D. Mendoza-Reyna, Dominic A. Friston, Ghislaine Scelo, David B. Price.

Lung Cancer in interstitial lung disease: a matched case-control and cohort analysis

ERJ Open Research

12 March 2026

Megan Harrison, Vidya Navaratnam, Francesca Gonnelli, Caitlin Fermoyle, David Price, Richard Hubbard, Tamera J. Corte

Pub Med

Characterising Patient Pathways prior to the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease

Respirology

11 March 2026

Caitlin C. Fermoyle, John Townend, Vidya Navaratnam, Nicole Goh, Francesca Gonnelli, Neva Eleangovan, Ursie Smith, Heath Heatley, Victoria Carter, David B. Price, Richard Hubbard, Tamera J. Corte

Pub Med

Development and internal validation of a prediction model for major cardiovascular and respiratory events in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: nationwide primary care electronic medical records cohort study

Prag Obs Res

10 March 2026

Chris P. Gale, Mohit Bhutani, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, John Townend, Mehul S Patel, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, William Henley, Cono Ariti, Victoria Carter, Amy Couper, Richard Hubbard, Janwillem W.H. Kocks, Rachel Pullen, Derek Skinner, David Price

Community-based prediction models of cardiovascular events, acute exacerbations and all-cause mortality in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and meta-analysis on behalf of the International Cardiovascular and Respiratory Alliance

BMJ Open Respiratory Research

27 February 2026

Tobin Joseph, Keerthenan Raveendra, Mohammad Haris, Jasmin Kirupananthan, Amaan Aslam, Alexandra Mircescu, Ashmit Bhardwaj, Aidan Wong, Ramesh Nadarajah, David B Price, Mohit Bhutani, Chris Gale.

Pub Med

Longitudinal observation of severe asthma comorbidities and oral corticosteroids use from SANI and ISAR registries

World Allergy Organ J

26 February 2026

Giuseppe Guida, Ghislaine Scelo, Dominic A. Friston, Francesco Blasi, Enrico Heffler, Pierluigi Paggiaro, Victoria Carter, Marco Caminati, Fabio Luigi Massimo Ricciardolo, Gianenrico Senna, David B. Price, Giorgio Walter Canonica

Healthcare Costs and Trends of Multimorbidity in COPD Patients: A Population-Based Study in Singapore

Int J of COPD

17 February 2026

Yah Ru Juang, Laura Huey Mien Lim, Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall, John Abisheganaden, Mariko Siyue Koh, Ming-Ju Tsai, Mei Fong Liew, Anthony Chau Ang Yii, Pei Yee Tiew, David Price, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Wenjia Chen

The potential impact of GLP-1 receptor agonists on exacerbation risk in patients with COPD and type 2 diabetes: A real-world population-based observational study

Prag ​Obs Res

30 January 2026

Bernardino Alcázar-Navarrete, Heath Heatley, Alan Kaplan, Tan Tze Lee, Mariko Koh, Naveed Sattar, John Townend, Derek Skinner, Victoria Carter, David Price

Pub Med

Interactive Pathways of Key Prognostic Factors in Severe Asthma: A Bayesian Network Comparison of Clinical Trials & Real-World Data

CHEST

24 January 2026

Chandra Prakash Yadav, Laura Huey Mien Lim, David B. Price, Rupsa Roy, Yah Ru Juang, Richard Beasley, Christer Janson, Mariko Siyue Koh, Eileen Wang, Michael E. Wechsler, David J. Jackson, John Busby, Liam G. Heaney, Paul E. Pfeffer, Bassam Mahboub, Diahn-Warng Perng, Borja G. Cosio, Luis Perez-de-Llano, Riyad Al-Lehebi, Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, Mona Al-Ahmad, Chin Kook Rhee, Takashi Iwanaga, Enrico Heffler, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Richard W. Costello, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Andriana I. Papaioannou, Celeste M. Porsbjerg, Carlos A. Torres-Duque, George C. Christoff, Todor A. Popov, Mark Hew, Matthew J. Peters, Peter G. Gibson, Jorge Máspero, Celine Bergeron, Saraid Cerda Reyes, Elvia Angelica Contreras Contreras, Wenjia Chen

Design and implementation of data collection and linkage of electronic health records in a large UK cluster-randomised trial of asthma management (ARRISA-UK)

Contemporary Clinical Trials

21 January 2026

Polly-Anna Ashford, Stanley Musgrave, Allan B. Clark, Susan Stirling, Martin Pond, David Price, Francis Appiagyei, Estelle Payerne, Jane R. Smith, Michael Noble, Andrew M. Wilson

Burden of type 2 and oral corticosteroids related comorbidities in severe asthma patients from the Gulf Countries: A comparative study from The ISAR registry

J Asthma Allergy

28 December 2025

Mona Al-Ahmad, Asmaa Ali, Riyad Al-Lehebi, Bassam Mahboub, Dominic A. Friston, Victoria Carter, Ghislaine Scelo, Lakmini Bulathsinhala, Aaron Beastall, David B. Price

Derivation and definitions of clinical study variables for multiple long term conditions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Protocol for a modified Delphi methods and consensus study on behalf of the International Cardiovascular and Respiratory Alliance

Pragmatic and Observational Research

12 December 2025

Tobin Joseph, Mohit Bhutani, Amy Couper, Rachel Pullen, Ramesh Nadarajah, Luis Alves, Maria Felicia Montero-Arias, Riyad Al-Lehebi, David D. Berg, Nathaniel M. Hawkins, John R. Hurst, Christine Jenkins, Alan Kaplan, Janwillem W.H. Kocks, Konstantinos Kostikas, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Therese S. Lapperre, Chin Kook Rhee, Naveed Sattar, Daiana Stolz, Gary Tse, Tonya Winders, David Price, Chris P. Gale

Pub Med

Economic Burden of Asthma Multimorbidity in Singapore and the Shadow Costs of Air Quality and Steroid Use: Evidence from National Health Administrative Data (2012-2019)

27 November 2025

Laura Huey Mien Lim, Yah Ru Juang, Sanjay H. Chotirmall, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Mariko Siyue Koh, John A. Abisheganaden, David B. Price, Ming-Ju Tsai, Mei Fong Liew, Pei Yee Tiew, Anthony Chau Ang Yii, Wenjia Chen

Pub Med

A 21-practice evaluation of an asthma and COPD quality improvement program

J Asthma Allergy

11 November 2025

John Blakey, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, Biljana Cvetkovski, Kerry Hancock, Porsche Le Cheng, Freya Tyrer, John Townend, Mark Hew, Peter Del Fante, Kanchanamala Ranasinghe, Philip Thompson, Peter Smith, Majella Soumakiyan, Deb Stewart, Anita Sharma, Bruce Willet, Kamila Abutalieva, Chantal Le Lievre, Alexander Roussos, Paola Accalai, Fabio Botini, Nicholas Bushell, Victoria Carter, Thao Le, and David Price and on behalf of the Australia Research Group

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