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Clinical characteristics with inflammation profiling of long COVID and association with 1-year recovery following hospitalisation in the UK: a prospective observational study, Rachael A Evans, Olivia C Leavy, Matthew Richardson, Omer Elneima, Hamish J C McAuley, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Marco Sereno, Ruth M Saunders, Victoria C Harris, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Raminder Aul, Paul Beirne, Charlotte E Bolton, Jeremy S Brown, Gourab Choudhury, Nawar Diar Bakerly, Nicholas Easom, Carlos Echevarria, Jonathan Fuld, Nick Har, John R Hurst, Mark G Jones, Dhruv Parekh, Paul Pfeffer, Najib M Rahman, Sarah L Rowland-Jones, Ajay M Shah, Dan G Wootton, Trudie Chalder, Melanie J Davies, Anthony De Soyza, John R Geddes, William Greenhalf, Neil J Greening, Liam G Heaney, Simon Heller, Luke S Howard, Joseph Jacob, R Gisli Jenkins, Janet M Lord, William D-C Man, Gerry P McCann, Stefan Neubauer, Peter J M Openshaw, Joanna C Porter, Matthew J Rowland, Janet T Scott, Malcolm G Semple, Sally J Singh, David Thomas, Mark Toshner, Keir E Lewis, Ryan S Thwaites, Andrew Briggs, Annemarie B Docherty, Steven Kerr, Nazir I Lone, Jennifer Quint, Aziz Sheikh, Mathew Thorpe, Bang Zheng, James D Chalmers, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Michael Marks, Krisnah Poinasamy, Betty Raman, Ewen M Harrison, Louise V Wain, Christopher E Brightling, on behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 8, Page 761-775, April 23, 2022 10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00127-8
Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Krisnah Poinasamy, Kate Holmes, Maryrose Tarpey, Claire Hastie, Kelly Raihani, Natalie Rogers, Nikki Smith, Dawn Adams, Paul Burgess, Jean Clark, Clare Cranage, Mahadev Desai, Nicola Geary, Rhyan Gill, Jitendra Mangwani, Lily Staunton, Colin Berry, Charlotte E Bolton, Trudie Chalder, James Chalmers, Anthony De Soyza, Omer Elneima, John Geddes, Simon Heller, Ling-Pei Ho, Joseph Jacob, Hamish McAuley, Aarti Parmar, Jennifer K Quint, Betty Raman, Matthew Rowland, Amisha Singapuri, Sally J Singh, David Thomas, Mark R Toshner, Louise V Wain, Alex Robert Horsley, Michael Marks, Christopher E Brightling, Rachael A Evans, Thorax, Volume 77, Page 717-720, March 30, 2022 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-218582
Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study, Rachael A Evans, Hamish McAuley, Ewen M Harrison, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Marco Sereno, Omer Elneima, Annemarie B Docherty, Nazir I Lone, Olivia C Leavy, Luke Daines, J Kenneth Baillie, Jeremy S Brown, Trudie Chalder, Anthony De Soyza, Nawar Diar Bakerly, Nicholas Easom, John R Geddes, Neil J Greening, Nick Hart, Liam G Heaney, Simon Heller, Luke Howard, John R Hurst, Joseph Jacob, R Gisli Jenkins, Caroline Jolley, Steven Kerr, Onn M Kon, Keir Lewis, Janet M Lord, Gerry P McCann, Stefan Neubauer, Peter J M Openshaw, Dhruv Parekh, Paul Pfeffer, Najib M Rahman, Betty Raman, Matthew Richardson, Matthew Rowland, Malcolm G Semple, Ajay M Shah, Sally J Singh, Aziz Sheikh, David Thomas, Mark Toshner, James D Chalmers, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Michael Marks, Krisnah Poinasamy, Louise V Wain, Christopher E Brightling, on behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 11, Page 1275-1287, Nov. 1, 2021 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00383-0
Determinants of recovery from post-COVID-19 dyspnoea: analysis of UK prospective cohorts of hospitalised COVID-19 patients and community-based controls, Bang Zheng, Giulia Vivaldi, Luke Daines, Olivia C. Leavy, Matthew Richardson, Omer Elneima, Hamish J.C. McAuley, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Marco Sereno, Ruth M. Saunders, Victoria C. Harris, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Neil J. Greening, Paul E. Pfeffer, John R. Hurst, Jeremy S. Brown, Manu Shankar-Hari, Carlos Echevarria, Anthony De Soyza, Ewen M. Harrison, Annemarie B. Docherty, Nazir Lone, Jennifer K. Quint, James D. Chalmers, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Michael Marks, Krishna Poinasamy, Betty Raman, Liam G. Heaney, Louise V. Wain, Rachael A. Evans, Christopher E. Brightling, Adrian Martineau, Aziz Sheikh, on behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Study Collaborative Group, The Lancet Regional Health Europe, Issue 100635, April 28, 2023 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100635
Effects of sleep disturbance on dyspnoea and impaired lung function following hospital admission due to COVID-19 in the UK: a prospective multicentre cohort study, Callum Jackson, Iain D Stewart, Tatiana Plekhanova, Peter S Cunningham, Andrew L Hazel, Bashar Al-Sheklly, Raminder Aul, Charlotte E Bolton, Trudie Chalder, James D Chalmers, Nazia Chaudhuri, Annemarie B Docherty, Gavin Donaldson, Charlotte L Edwardson, Omer Elneima, Neil J Greening, Neil A Hanley, Victoria C Harris, Ewen M Harrison, Ling-Pei Ho, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Luke S Howard, Caroline J Jolley, Mark G Jones, Olivia C Leavy, Keir E Lewis, Nazir I Lone, Michael Marks, Hamish J C McAuley, Melitta A McNarry, Brijesh V Patel, Karen Piper-Hanley, Krisnah Poinasamy, Betty Raman, Matthew Richardson, Pilar Rivera-Ortega, Sarah L Rowland-Jones, Alex V Rowlands, Ruth M Saunders, Janet T Scott, Marco Sereno, Ajay M Shah, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Stefan C Stanel, Mathew Thorpe, Daniel G Wootton, Thomas Yates, R Gisli Jenkins, Sally J Singh, William D-C Man, Christopher E Brightling, Louise V Wain, Joanna C Porter, A A Roger Thompson, Alex Horsley, Philip L Molyneaux, Rachael A Evans, Samuel E Jones, Martin K Rutter, John F Blaikley, on behalf of thePHOSP-COVID Study Collaborative Group, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, April 15, 2023 10.1016/S2213-2600(23)00124-8
Prevalence of physical frailty, including risk factors, up to 1 year after hospitalisation for COVID-19 in the UK: a multicentre, longitudinal cohort study, Hamish J.C. McAuley, Rachael A. Evans, Charlotte E. Bolton, Christopher E. Brightling, James D. Chalmers, Annemarie B. Docherty, Omer Elneima, Paul L. Greenhaff, Ayushman Gupta, Victoria C. Harris, Ewen M. Harrison, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Caroline J. Jolley, Olivia C. Leavy, Nazir I. Lone, William D-C Man, Michael Marks, Dhruv Parekh, Krisnah Poinasamy, Jennifer K. Quint, Betty Raman, Matthew Richardson, Ruth M. Saunders, Marco Sereno, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Sally J. Singh, Michael Steiner, Ai Lyn Tan, Louise V. Wain, Carly Welch, Julie Whitney, Miles D. Witham, Janet Lord, Neil J. Greening, on behalf of thePHOSP-COVID Study Collaborative Group, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 57, Issue 101896, March 10, 2023 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101896
Characteristics and risk factors for post-COVID breathlessness after hospitalisation for COVID-19, Luke Daines, Bang Zheng, Omer Elneima, Ewen Harrison, Nazir I. Lone, John R. Hurst, Jeremy S. Brown, Elizabeth Sapey, James D. Chalmers, Jennifer K. Quint, Paul Pfeffer, Salman Siddiqui, Samantha Walker, Krisnah Poinasamy, Hamish McAuley, Marco Sereno, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Annemarie B. Docherty, Michael Marks, Mark Toshner, Luke S. Howard, Alex Horsley, Gisli Jenkins, Joanna C. Porter, Ling-Pei Ho, Betty Raman, Louise V. Wain, Christopher E. Brightling, Rachael A. Evans, Liam G. Heaney, Anthony De Soyza, Aziz Sheikh, on behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Study Collaborative Group, ERJ Open Research, Volume 9, Issue 1, Feb. 20, 2023 10.1183/23120541.00274-2022
Implementable Deep Learning for Multi-sequence Proton MRI Lung Segmentation: A Multi-center, Multi-vendor, and Multi-disease Study, Joshua R. Astley, Alberto M. Biancardi, Paul J. C. Hughes, Helen Marshall, Guilhem J. Collier, Ho-Fung Chan, Laura C. Saunders, Laurie J. Smith, Martin L. Brook, Roger Thompson, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Sarah Skeoch, Stephen M. Bianchi, Matthew Q. Hatton, Najib M. Rahman, Ling-Pei Ho, Chris E. Brightling, Louise V. Wain, Amisha Singapuri, Rachael A. Evans, Alastair J. Moss, Gerry P. McCann, Stefan Neubauer, Betty Raman, C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, Jim M. Wild, Bilal A. Tahir, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Feb. 17, 2023 10.1002/jmri.28643
The effect of COVID rehabilitation for ongoing symptoms Post HOSPitalisation with COVID-19 (PHOSP-R): protocol for a randomised parallel group controlled trial on behalf of the PHOSP consortium, Enya Daynes, Molly Baldwin, Neil J. Greening, Thomas Yates, Nicolette C. Bishop, George Mills, Matthew Roberts, Malik Hamrouni, Tatiana Plekhanova, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Carlos Echevarria, Rashmita Nathu, Hamish J. C. McAuley, Lorna Latimer, Jennifer Glennie, Francesca Chambers, Ruth Penfold, Emily Hume, Dimitrios Megaritis, Charikleia Alexiou, Sebastian Potthoff, Mitchell James Hogg, Catherine Haighton, Bethany Nichol, Olivia C. Leavy, Matthew Richardson, Omer Elneima, Amisha Singapuri, Marco Sereno, Ruth M. Saunders, Victoria C. Harris, Claire M. Nolan, Charlotte Bolton, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Ewen M. Harrison, Nazir Lone, Jennifer Quint, James D. Chalmers, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Michael Marks, Krisnah Poinasamy, Betty Ramen, Louise V. Wain, Christopher Brightling, William D.-C. Man, Rachael Evans, Sally J. Singh, Trials, Volume 24, Issue 61, Jan. 26, 2023 10.1186/s13063-023-07093-7
SARS-CoV-2-specific nasal IgA wanes 9 months after hospitalisation with COVID-19 and is not induced by subsequent vaccination, Felicity Liew, Shubha Talwar, Andy Cross, Brian J. Willett, Sam Scott, Nicola Logan, Matthew K. Siggins, Dawid Swieboda, Jasmin K. Sidhu, Claudia Efstathiou, Shona C. Moore, Chris Davis, Noura Mohamed, Jose Nunag, Clara King, A.A. Roger Thompson, Sarah L. Rowland-Jones, Annemarie B. Docherty, James D. Chalmers, Ling-Pei Ho, Alexander Horsley, Betty Raman, Krisnah Poinasamy, Michael Marks, Onn Min Kon, Luke Howard, Daniel G. Wootton, Susanna Dunachie, Jennifer K. Quint, Rachael A. Evans, Louise V. Wain, Sara Fontanella, Thushan I. de Silva, Antonia Ho, Ewen Harrison, J. Kenneth Baillie, Malcolm G. Semple, Christopher Brightling, Ryan S. Thwaites, Lance Turtle, Peter J.M. Openshaw, on behalf of theISARIC-4C Investigators and the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, eBioMedicine, Dec. 19, 2022 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104402
Residual Lung Abnormalities Following COVID-19 Hospitalization: Interim Analysis of the UKILD Post-COVID Study, Iain Stewart, Joseph Jacob, Peter M. George, Philip L Molyneaux, Joanna C. Porter, Richard J Allen, Shahab Aslani, J. Kenneth Baillie, Shaney L Barratt, Paul Beirne, Stephen M Bianchi, John F Blaikley, James D. Chalmers, Rachel C Chambers, Nazia Chaudhuri, Christopher Coleman, Guilhem Collier, Emma K Denneny, Annemarie Docherty, Omer Elneima, Rachel A Evans, Laura Fabbri, Michael A Gibbons, Fergus V Gleeson, Bibek Gooptu, Neil J Greening, Beatriz Guillen Guio, Ian P. Hall, Neil A Hanley, Victoria Harris, Ewen M Harrison, Melissa Heightman, Toby E Hillman, Alex Horsley, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Ian Jarrold, Simon R Johnson, Mark G Jones, Fasihul Khan, Rod Lawson, Olivia Leavy, Nazir Lone, Michael Marks, Hamish McAuley, Puja Mehta, Dhruv Parekh, Karen Piper Hanley, Manuela Platé, John Pearl, Krisnah Poinasamy, Jennifer K Quint, Betty Raman, Matthew Richardson, Pilar Rivera-Ortega, Laura Saunders, Ruth Saunders, Malcolm G Semple, Marco Sereno, Aarti Shikotra, A John Simpson, Amisha Singapuri, David JF Smith, Mark Spears, Lisa G Spencer, Stefan Stanel, David Thickett, A. A. Roger Thompson, Mathew Thorpe, Simon LF Walsh, Samantha Walker, Nicholas David Weatherley, Mark Weeks, Jim M Wild, Dan G Wootton, Chris E. Brightling, Ling-Pei Ho, Louise V Wain, R Gisli Jenkins, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Dec. 1, 2022 10.1164/rccm.202203-0564OC
Device-assessed sleep and physical activity in individuals recovering from a hospital admission for COVID-19: a multicentre study, Tatiana Plekhanova, Alex V. Rowlands, Rachael A. Evans, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Nicolette C. Bishop, Charlotte E. Bolton, James D. Chalmers, Melanie J. Davies, Enya Daynes, Paddy C. Dempsey, Annemarie B. Docherty, Omer Elneima, Neil J. Greening, Sharlene A. Greenwood, Andrew P. Hall, Victoria C. Harris, Ewen M. Harrison, Joseph Henson, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Kamlesh Khunti, Olivia C. Leavy, Nazir I. Lone, Michael Marks, Ben Maylor, Hamish J. C. McAuley, Claire M. Nolan, Krisnah Poinasamy, Jennifer K. Quint, Betty Raman, Matthew Richardson, Jack A. Sargeant, Ruth M. Saunders, Marco Sereno, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Michael Steiner, David J. Stensel, Louise V. Wain, Julie Whitney, Dan G. Wootton, Christopher E. Brightling, William D-C. Man, Sally J. Singh, Tom Yates, on behalf of the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Volume 19, Issue 94, July 28, 2022 10.1186/s12966-022-01333-w
Symptom Persistence Despite Improvement in Cardiopulmonary Health – Insights from longitudinal CMR, CPET and lung function testing post-COVID-19, Mark Philip Cassar, Elizabeth M. Tunnicliffe,Nayia Petousi, Adam J. Lewandowski, Cheng Xie, Masliza Mahmod, Azlan Helmy Abd Samat, Rachael A. Evans, Christopher E. Brightling, Ling-Pei Ho, Stefan K. Piechnik, Nick P. Talbot, David Holdsworth, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Stefan Neubauer, Betty Raman, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 41, Issue 101159, Oct. 20, 2021 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101159
The long-term sequelae of COVID-19: an international consensus on research priorities for patients with pre-existing and new-onset airways disease, Davies Adeloye, Omer Elneima, Luke Daines, Krisnah Poinasamy, Jennifer K Quint, Samantha Walker, Chris E Brightling, Salman Siddiqui, John R Hurst, James D Chalmers, Paul E Pfeffer, Petr Novotny, Thomas M Drake, Liam G Heaney, Igor Rudan, Aziz Sheikh, Anthony De Soyza,on behalf of the International COVID-19 Airways Diseases Group, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 12, Page 1467-1478, Aug. 17, 2021 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00286-1
Medium-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on multiple vital organs, exercise capacity, cognition, quality of life and mental health, post-hospital discharge, Betty Raman, Mark Philip Cassar, Elizabeth M. Tunnicliffe Nicola Filippini, Ludovica Griffanti, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Thomas Okell, Fintan Sheerin, Cheng Xie, Masliza Mahmod, Ferenc E. Mózes, Adam J. Lewandowski, Eric O. Ohuma, David Holdsworth, Hanan Lamlum, Myles J. Woodman, Catherine Krasopoulos, Rebecca Mills, Flora A. Kennedy McConnell, Chaoyue Wang, Christoph Arthofer, Frederik J. Lange, Jesper Andersson, Mark Jenkinson, Charalambos Antoniades, Keith M. Channon, Mayooran Shanmuganathan, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Stefan K. Piechnik, Paul Klenerman, Christopher Brightling, Nick P. Talbot, Nayia Petousi, Najib M. Rahman, Ling-Pei Ho, Kate Saunders, John R. Geddes, Paul J. Harrison, Kyle Pattinson, Matthew J. Rowland, Brian J. Angus, Fergus Gleeson, Michael Pavlides, Ivan Koychev, Karla L. Miller, Clare Mackay, Peter Jezzard, Stephen M. Smith, Stefan Neubauer, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 31, Issue 100683, Jan. 7, 2021 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100683