| 1 | Economic burden of asthma: a systematic review | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2009 | 625 |
| 2 | Attitudes and actions of asthma patients on regular maintenance therapy: the INSPIRE study | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2006 | 430 |
| 3 | Systematic review with meta-analysis of the epidemiological evidence relating smoking to COPD, chronic bronchitis and emphysema | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2011 | 339 |
| 4 | Cystic fibrosis lung environment and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2016 | 336 |
| 5 | Radiation-induced lung injury: current evidence | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2021 | 304 |
| 6 | The six minute walk test accurately estimates mean peak oxygen uptake | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2010 | 262 |
| 7 | The frequency of asthma exacerbations and healthcare utilization in patients with asthma from the UK and USA | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2017 | 239 |
| 8 | The prevalence of clinically-relevant comorbid conditions in patients with physician-diagnosed COPD: a cross-sectional study using data from NHANES 1999–2008 | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2012 | 237 |
| 9 | Distribution of sputum cellular phenotype in a large asthma cohort: predicting factors for eosinophilic vs neutrophilic inflammation | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2013 | 234 |
| 10 | Creating scenarios of the impact of copd and their relationship to copd assessment test (CAT™) scores | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2011 | 232 |
| 11 | Asthma caused by occupational exposures is common – A systematic analysis of estimates of the population-attributable fraction | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2009 | 228 |
| 12 | Post tracheostomy and post intubation tracheal stenosis: Report of 31 cases and review of the literature | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2008 | 218 |
| 13 | Mold sensitization is common amongst patients with severe asthma requiring multiple hospital admissions | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2005 | 214 |
| 14 | Expression of taste receptors in Solitary Chemosensory Cells of rodent airways | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2011 | 212 |
| 15 | Delay in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in low-and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2017 | 207 |
| 16 | Timing of noninvasive ventilation failure: causes, risk factors, and potential remedies | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2014 | 206 |
| 17 | Geographic variation in the aetiology, epidemiology and microbiology of bronchiectasis | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2018 | 200 |
| 18 | Metagenomic next-generation sequencing for mixed pulmonary infection diagnosis | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2019 | 200 |
| 19 | Cough aerosol in healthy participants: fundamental knowledge to optimize droplet-spread infectious respiratory disease management | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2012 | 190 |
| 20 | Diagnostic yield and risk/benefit analysis of trans-bronchial lung cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung diseases: a large cohort of 699 patients | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2019 | 181 |
| 21 | Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in Asian adults: a systematic review of the literature | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2013 | 180 |
| 22 | Can asthma control be improved by understanding the patient's perspective? | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2007 | 171 |
| 23 | Chest x-ray findings and temporal lung changes in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2020 | 170 |
| 24 | Barriers to timely diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in the real world: the INTENSITY survey | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2018 | 167 |
| 25 | Efficacy and safety of aclidinium bromide/formoterol fumarate fixed-dose combinations compared with individual components and placebo in patients with COPD (ACLIFORM-COPD): a multicentre, randomised study | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2014 | 163 |
| 26 | Robot-assisted bronchoscopy for pulmonary lesion diagnosis: results from the initial multicenter experience | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2019 | 163 |
| 27 | Long-term (5 year) safety of bronchial thermoplasty: Asthma Intervention Research (AIR) trial | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2011 | 162 |
| 28 | Age-specific incidence of allergic and non-allergic asthma | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2020 | 162 |
| 29 | Prevalence of asthma and other allergic conditions in Colombia 2009–2010: a cross-sectional study | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2012 | 157 |
| 30 | Host markers in Quantiferon supernatants differentiate active TB from latent TB infection: preliminary report | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2009 | 156 |
| 31 | The effect of body position on pulmonary function: a systematic review | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2018 | 149 |
| 32 | Lower mortality after early supervised pulmonary rehabilitation following COPD-exacerbations: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2018 | 149 |
| 33 | Reference values for the 6-minute walk test in healthy children and adolescents in Switzerland | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2013 | 146 |
| 34 | Efficacy of antifibrotic drugs, nintedanib and pirfenidone, in treatment of progressive pulmonary fibrosis in both idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-IPF: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2021 | 145 |
| 35 | Assessing health status in COPD. A head-to-head comparison between the COPD assessment test (CAT) and the clinical COPD questionnaire (CCQ) | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2012 | 142 |
| 36 | 2-Aminoacetophenone as a potential breath biomarker for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cystic fibrosis lung | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2010 | 140 |
| 37 | Prognostic value of extravascular lung water assessed with lung ultrasound score by chest sonography in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2015 | 137 |
| 38 | Pirfenidone attenuates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice by regulating Nrf2/Bach1 equilibrium | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2017 | 137 |
| 39 | Improved adherence with once-daily versus twice-daily dosing of mometasone furoate administered via a dry powder inhaler: a randomized open-label study | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2010 | 133 |
| 40 | Pirfenidone inhibits TGF-β1-induced over-expression of collagen type I and heat shock protein 47 in A549 cells | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2012 | 132 |
| 41 | Possible molecular mechanisms linking air pollution and asthma in children | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2014 | 132 |
| 42 | Altered expression of microRNA in the airway wall in chronic asthma: miR-126 as a potential therapeutic target | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2011 | 131 |
| 43 | Systemic air embolism during percutaneous core needle biopsy of the lung: frequency and risk factors | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2012 | 131 |
| 44 | Risk factors for acute respiratory infections in children under five years attending the Bamenda Regional Hospital in Cameroon | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2018 | 130 |
| 45 | LncRNA TUG1 alleviates sepsis-induced acute lung injury by targeting miR-34b-5p/GAB1 | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2020 | 128 |
| 46 | Safety profile and clinical activity of multiple subcutaneous doses of MEDI-528, a humanized anti-interleukin-9 monoclonal antibody, in two randomized phase 2a studies in subjects with asthma | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2011 | 127 |
| 47 | The association between obstructive sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2015 | 127 |
| 48 | Lung transplantation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review of the literature | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2014 | 124 |
| 49 | Important prognostic factors for survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2015 | 119 |
| 50 | Early intestinal Bacteroides fragilis colonisation and development of asthma | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2008 | 116 |