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Alfred Health research outcomes are published in a wide range of peer reviewed journals. 

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Rhinitis in Swiss adults is associated with asthma and early life factors, but not second hand tobacco smoke or obesity

Abramson MJ, Schindler C, Schikowski T, Bircher AJ, Burdet L, Gerbase MW, Imboden M, Rochat T, Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Turk AJ, Zemp E, Künzli N, Probst-Hensch N

(2016), Allergol Int, 65(2),

Comparative analysis of how immune sensitization is defined prior to lung transplantation

Chin N, Paraskeva M, Paul E, Cantwell L, Levvey B, Williams T, Snell G, Westall G

(2015), Hum Immunol, 76(10), 711-6

Influenza vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation with influenza in adults in Australia in 2014

Cheng AC, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM; FluCAN Investigators

(2015), Vaccine, 33(51), 7352-6

Spirometry and regular follow-up do not improve quality of life in children or adolescents with asthma: cluster randomized controlled trials

Abramson MJ, Schattner RL, Holton C, Simpson P, Briggs N, Beilby J, Nelson MR, Wood-Baker R, Thien F, Sulaiman ND, Colle ED, Wolfe R, Crockett AJ, Massie RJ

(2015), Pediatr Pulmonol, 50(10), 947-54

Managing Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis

Langan KM, Kotsimbos T, Peleg AY

(2015), Curr Opin Infect Dis, 28(6), 547-56

International consensus on allergy immunotherapy

Jutel M, Agache I, Bonini S, Burks AW, Calderon M, Canonica W, Cox L, Demoly P, Frew AJ, O'Hehir R, Kleine-Tebbe J, Muraro A, Lack G, Larenas D, Levin M, Nelson H, Pawankar R, Pfaar O, van Ree R, Sampson H, Santos AF, Du Toit G, Werfel T, Gerth van Wijk R, Zhang L, Akdis CA

(2015), J Allergy Clin Immunol, 136(3), 556-68

The immunoregulatory and fibrotic roles of activin A in allergic asthma

Hardy CL, Rolland JM, O'Hehir RE

(2015), Clin Exp Allergy, 45(10), 1510-22

Non-small cell lung cancer

Stirling R

(2015), In: Symons J, Myles P, Mehra R, Ball C (eds), Perioperative Medicine for the Junior Clinician, Wiley Blackwell, UK, Chapter 43,

Obstructive sleep apnoea

Naughton MT

(2015), In: Symons J, Myles P, Mehra R, Ball C (eds), Perioperative Medicine for the Junior Clinician, Wiley Blackwell, UK, Chapter 40,

Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a telehealth program--management of asthma with supportive telehealth of respiratory function in pregnancy (MASTERY©)

Zairina E, Abramson MJ, McDonald CF, Li J, Dharmasiri T, Stewart K, Walker SP, Paul E, George J

(2015), BMC Pulm Med, 15, 84

Intermittent positive pressure ventilation increases diastolic pulmonary arterial pressure in advanced COPD

Wrobel JP, Thompson BR, Stuart-Andrews CR, Kee K, Snell GI, Buckland M, Williams TJ

(2015), Heart Lung, 44(1), 50-6

Bronchoscopic procedures and lung biopsies in pediatric lung transplant recipients

Wong JY, Westall GP, Snell GI

(2015), Pediatr Pulmonol, 50(12), 1406-19

Antibody-mediated rejection

Westall GP, Paraskeva MA, Snell GI

(2015), Curr Opin Organ Transplant, 20(5), 492-7

The innate response to peanut extract in ovine afferent lymph and its correlation with allergen sensitisation

Van Gramberg JL, Bischof RJ, O'Hehir RE, de Veer MJ, Meeusen EN

(2015), Immunol Cell Biol, 93(6), 533-9

Patterns of emphysema heterogeneity

Valipour A, Shah PL, Gesierich W, Eberhardt R, Snell G, Strange C, Barry R, Gupta A, Henne E, Bandyopadhyay S, Raffy P, Yin Y, Tschirren J, Herth FJ

(2015), Respiration, 90(5), 402-11

Design of the randomized, controlled sequential staged treatment of emphysema with upper lobe predominance (STEP-UP) study

Valipour A, Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Shah PL, Gupta A, Barry R, Henne E, Bandyopadhyay S, Snell G

(2015), BMC Pulm Med, 14, 190

Defining airflow obstruction

Quanjer PH, Cooper B, Ruppel GL, Swanney MP, Stocks J, Culver BH, Thompson BR

(2015), Eur Respir J, 45(2), 561-2

Clinical outcomes of lung transplant recipients with telomerase mutations

Tokman S, Singer JP, Devine MS, Westall GP, Aubert JD, Tamm M, Snell GI, Lee JS, Goldberg HJ, Kukreja J, Golden JA, Leard LE, Garcia CK, Hays SR

(2015), J Heart Lung Transplant, 34(10), 1318-24

Early bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome shows an abnormality of perfusion not ventilation in lung transplant recipients

Thompson BR, Ellis MJ, Stuart-Andrews C, Lopez M, Kedarisetty S, Snell GI, Prisk GK

(2015), Respir Physiol Neurobiol, 216, 28-34

The presence of HLA-E-restricted, CMV-specific CD8+ T cells in the blood of lung transplant recipients correlates with chronic allograft rejection

Sullivan LC, Westall GP, Widjaja JM, Mifsud NA, Nguyen TH, Meehan AC, Kotsimbos TC, Brooks AG

(2015), PLoS One, 10(8), e0135972