Alice M Turner
University of Birmingham
167 Papers
265 Citations
Alice M Turner is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & COPD. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 140 publications. Previous affiliations of Alice M Turner include University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust & National Health Service.
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Papers
Vitamin D deficiency contributes directly to the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Rachel Dancer,Dhruv Parekh,Sian Lax,Vijay K. D'Souza,Shengxing Zheng,Chris Bassford,Daniel Park,Domokos Bartis,Rahul Y Mahida,Alice M Turner,Elizabeth Sapey,Wenbin Wei,Babu Naidu,Paul M. Stewart,William D. Fraser,Kenneth B. Christopher,Mark S. Cooper,Fang Gao,David M. Sansom,Adrian R. Martineau,Gavin D. Perkins,David R Thickett +21 more
TL;DR: Vitamin D deficiency is common in people who develop ARDS and appears to contribute to the development of the condition, and approaches to correct vitamin D deficiency in patients at risk of ARDS should be developed.
European Respiratory Society statement: diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary disease in α1-antitrypsin deficiency.
Marc Miravitlles,Asger Dirksen,Ilaria Ferrarotti,Vladimir Koblizek,Peter Lange,Ravi Mahadeva,Noel G. McElvaney,David G. Parr,Eeva Piitulainen,Nicolas Roche,Jan Stolk,Gabriel Thabut,Alice M Turner,Claus Vogelmeier,Robert A. Stockley +14 more
TL;DR: It is crucial to organise national and international registries and collect information prospectively about the natural history of the disease, as AATD is a rare disease and inequalities in access to therapies across Europe should be addressed.
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Mortality prediction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comparing the GOLD 2007 and 2011 staging systems: a pooled analysis of individual patient data
Joan B. Soriano,Bernd Lamprecht,Ana Sofia Ramírez,Pablo Martínez-Camblor,Bernhard Kaiser,Inmaculada Alfageme,Pere Almagro,Ciro Casanova,Cristóbal Esteban,Juan José Soler-Cataluña,Juan P. de-Torres,Marc Miravitlles,Bartolome R. Celli,Jose M. Marin,Milo A. Puhan,Patricia Sobradillo,Peter Lange,Alice L. Sternberg,Judith Garcia-Aymerich,Alice M Turner,MeiLan K. Han,Arnulf Langhammer,Linda Leivseth,Per Bakke,Ane Johannessen,Nicolas Roche,Don D. Sin,Don D. Sin +27 more
TL;DR: Neither GOLD COPD classification schemes have sufficient discriminatory power to be used clinically for risk classification at the individual level to predict total mortality for 3 years of follow-up and onwards, and the prognostic accuracy of the staging documents for mortality is compared.
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Indoor Air Pollution and the Health of Vulnerable Groups: A Systematic Review Focused on Particulate Matter (PM), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Their Effects on Children and People with Pre-Existing Lung Disease
Tun Zan Maung,Jack E. Bishop,E. Holt,Alice M Turner,Christian Pfrang +4 more
TL;DR: In this article , the main indoor air pollutants are Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Particulate Matter (PM) sources included smoking, cooking, heating, candles, and insecticides, whereas sources of coarse particles were pets, housework and human movements.
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The role of the endothelium in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Clara E. Green,Alice M Turner +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence of the involvement of pulmonary endothelium in COPD and asthma is reviewed and potential treatment options for this tissue and its’ progenitor cells are reviewed.