Featured articles from the journal CHEST®, June 2023

Published monthly, the journal CHEST opens in new tab/window^® features peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in chest medicine: Pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine and related disciplines. Journal topics include asthma, chest infections, COPD, critical care, diffuse lung disease, education and clinical practice, pulmonary vascular disease, sleep, thoracic oncology and the humanities.

The June issue opens in new tab/window of the CHEST journal contains 49 articles, including clinically relevant research, reviews, case series, commentary and more. Each month, the journal also offers complementary web and multimedia resources opens in new tab/window, including visual abstracts, to expand the reach of its most interesting, timely and relevant research.

Editor-in-Chief of the journal CHEST, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, says, “When reading through the June issue of the flagship journal, I recommend also looking at the Articles in Press in the new open access publications, CHEST^® Pulmonary opens in new tab/window and CHEST^® Critical Care opens in new tab/window. With full issues publishing in the coming months, they currently feature original research including, ‘Community-Acquired Pneumonia Incidence in Adults 18 Years of Age and Older in Goto City, Japan opens in new tab/window’ and ‘ICU Mortality Across Prepandemic and Pandemic Cohorts in a Resource-Limited Setting opens in new tab/window.’”

Also included in the current issue of the journal CHEST:

• Asthma Original research, “Sputum Type 2 Markers Could Predict Remission in Severe Asthma Treated With Anti-IL-5 opens in new tab/window,” suggests that sputum markers can be used as surrogate markers of remission one year after therapy. View the visual abstract for this research opens in new tab/window.

• Chest Infections Looking at 1,909 individuals over age 65 who survived hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia, “Guideline-Concordant Antibiotic Therapy for the Hospital Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia and 1-Year All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Older Adult Patients Surviving to Discharge opens in new tab/window” suggests that compliance with clinical practice guidelines reduces risk of cardiovascular death at one year post-community-acquired pneumonia.View the visual abstract for this research. opens in new tab/window

• Critical Care

  A population-based cohort study, “New and Persistent Sedative Prescriptions Among Older Adults Following a Critical Illness opens in new tab/window,” demonstrates that one in 15 sedation-naive older adult ICU survivors filled new sedative prescriptions within a week of discharge, and more than half had refills. View the visual abstract for this research. opens in new tab/window

• Thoracic Oncology

  A longitudinal study of 4,432 individuals, “Changing Smoking Behavior and Epigenetics opens in new tab/window” finds that methylation in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene recovered to a higher degree in individuals who quit smoking compared with individuals who continued smoking or who never smoked.

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Notes for editors

To view the entire June issue of CHEST journal (volume 163, issue 6), published by Elsevier, visit journal.chestnet.org opens in new tab/window and follow @journal_CHEST opens in new tab/window on Twitter for the latest journal news.

Full text of these articles and interviews with the authors are available to credentialed journalists upon request; contact Laura DiMasi, Senior Specialist, Communications and Public Relations, American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), at [email protected] opens in new tab/window.

About the journal CHEST^®

The journal CHEST opens in new tab/window, the official publication of the American College of Chest Physicians®, features the best in peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine: pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; thoracic surgery; cardiorespiratory interactions; and related disciplines. Published since 1935, it is home to the highly regarded clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements. Access the journal CHEST online at journal.chestnet.org opens in new tab/window.

About the American College of Chest Physicians

The American College of Chest Physicians^® (CHEST) is the global leader in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chest diseases. Its mission is to champion advanced clinical practice, education, communication, and research in chest medicine. It serves as an essential connection to clinical knowledge and resources for its 19,000+ members from around the world who provide patient care in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. For information about the American College of Chest Physicians, and its flagship journal CHEST^®, visit chestnet.org. opens in new tab/window

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