Sounds like a great session ahead, what are you most excited to share at #BTSwinter2024?

Oh good! We were using the hashtag #BTSWinter2024 so take a look at our posts! What a meeting!

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Inspired by all the @bsky.app handles at #BTSWinter2024 (thank you @btsrespiratory.bsky.social) we've made the switch. Feeling a bit like the new kid at school! Please follow, recommend your fave follows and point us in the direction of good science! #RespIsBest #UniOfBristol

Samantha Harrison @SamHarry_lung
Walking football is a promising exercise maintenance option for people with COPD following pulmonary rehabilitation. Well done ⁦@Cal_Bradford98 ⁩ presenting his PhD at #BTSWinter2024 ⁦@TeessideUni
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My #BTSWinter2024 experience, starting and finishing back in Dundee.

Travel home from #BTSWinter2024. Long days, jam packed with great people doing great work in the Respiratory world. Saw a lot of old friends, too many to mention. Good conference, would recommend. 5 stars.

Thank you so much @BTSrespiratory for a wonderful #BTSWinter2024; it’s been a blast!💥 🫁 Until next year ! 👋

Congratulations to our iBSc student, Katie Cox, for her brillant presentation at #btswinter2024 @louisedresp.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Heading home after a fantastic #BTSWinter2024 Leaving energised and grateful for friends and the opportunity to talk #mesothelioma in the Plenary Scientific Symposium. Also excited for 2025 under our new BTS President!

Thank you so much to @balrcommunity.bsky.social for the early career researcher award. Very grateful for the opportunity to present at #BTSWinter2024 and thankful to everyone in the Dundee respiratory research group for all your support in this project. @profjdchalmers.bsky.social

Really enjoyed chairing the spoken posters ‘Call of the ILD’ at #BTSWinter2024 with Joe Ball.

Two hours, 12 posters of great scientific and clinical data!

Great to present our meta-analysis of respiratory viruses in asthma at #BTSWinter2024

Hopefully will be able to share the full paper with you soon!

Optimal spirometry thresholds for the prediction of chronic airflow obstruction: a multinational longitudinal study IntroductionChronic airflow obstruction is key for COPD diagnosis but strategies for its early detection are limited. We aimed to define the optimal z-score thresholds for spirometry parameters to discriminate chronic airflow obstruction incidence.MethodsThe Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study is a multinational cohort study. Information on respiratory symptoms was collected and pre- and post-bronchodilator spirometry was performed at baseline. Eighteen study sites were followed up with repeat measurements after a median of 8.4 years. We converted lung function measurements into z-scores using the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey reference equations. We used the Youden index to calculate the optimal z-score thresholds for discriminating chronic airflow obstruction incidence. We further examined differences by smoking status.ResultsWe analysed data from 3057 adults (57% females, mean age: 51 years at baseline). Spirometry parameters were good at discriminating chronic airflow obstruction incidence (AUC 0.80–0.84), while respiratory symptoms performed poorly. The optimal z-score threshold was identified for pre-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC <-1.336, equivalent to the 9th percentile (sensitivity: 78%, specificity: 72%). All z-score thresholds associated with a lower post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC and greater odds of chronic airflow obstruction at follow-up. The risk of chronic airflow obstruction was slightly greater for current smokers and, to some extent, never smokers with a pre-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC less than the 9th/10th percentiles at baseline, particularly among males.ConclusionsSpirometry is better than respiratory symptoms at predicting chronic airflow obstruction incidence. A pre-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC <9th/10th percentiles, particularly among current smokers, could suggest early airflow obstruction or pre-COPD.

#BTSWinter2024 for more details, check the early view of the accepted paper on this work
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Lab hall of honour at #BTSWinter2024
A medical student
An SpR (PhD student)
A consultant (senior research associate)
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Proud of our year 4 University of Cambridge medical student, Tom Cowan, who presented so well on our Federated Learning AI project to diagnose Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome & lymphangioleiomatosis 🫁
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Dr Peter Cook presenting their work on the stage at the British Thoracic Society Winter meeting 2024

Outstanding talk by @drpetercook.bsky.social on fungi as triggers of inflammatory lung disease!
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Also: menopause, less than full time working, leadership opportunities, imposter syndrome, retirement, & the power of the phrase ‘I’ve felt that too, it’s not you.’ #BTSWinter2024

Incredible session at #BTSWinter2024 on women in Respiratory medicine, expertly chaired by Dr Hitashi Rupani. So many rich experiences shared in the room & some critical issues to tackle to support women to achieve their potential: implicit bias, fertility, mental health, caring, mentorship & more

Women in Respiratory Medicine #BTSWinter2024

#BTSWinter2024 two of the best talks I’ve heard in a long time from Esther Robinson and Gerry Davies at the TB Symposium… looking forward to the next by Celso Khosa

#btswinter2024 - excited to see if education is an important component or discussed in this talk 😬😬 … #tomward

Terrific session including our own Lance Burn (med student prize winner) and Niki Veale (real reg & PhD student highly commended) 🫁🥳🎉
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Refreshing & entertaining talk from Prof Eric Lim on MARS2 - surgery does not work for mesothelioma. Even if you want it to. It is not good for patients. Don’t do it. Follow the evidence. #BTSWinter2024 #medsky #pulmsky

Results from our multicentre respiratory resident-led study of chest drain removal presented at #BTSWinter2024! Great collaboration, manuscript in process 🔜 thorax.bmj.com/content/79/S...

I'll be speaking this morning @btsrespiratory.bsky.social in "A Winter's Tale" session about the model we have developed to study RSV infection in children which was funded by Animal Free Research UK. Come find out more in Moore/4th at 11:05 #BTSwinter2024.

You don’t have long to try & answer yesterday’s quiz question! Answer out very soon, & a new quiz question coming up for the last day of #BTSWinter2024

Quite the view from the Westminster Room. Come along to level 4 for all things pneumothorax. Kickoff at 8:30. #BTSWinter2024

Health economic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation services integrated within lung cancer screening Introduction. Integrating smoking cessation support into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, healthcare decision makers need evidence of cost effectiveness to understand the c...

Health economic model - cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation services integrated within lung cancer screening [preprint] #BTSWinter2024
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The #BTSWinter2024 session, which looks to be excellent, is detailed here 👇