A multidisciplinary group of international experts in household air pollution and energy access in low- and middle-income countries provide 14 consensus statements regarding trials, interventions, barriers, and areas of future research.

Although novel models are evolving that capture some or all of the elements of the altered extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment in lung diseases, opportunities exist to more fully understand cell–ECM interactions that will help devise future therapeutic targets to restore function in chronic lung diseases. In this perspective article, the authors review evolving knowledge about the ECM’s role in homeostasis and disease in the lung.

Here, the authors used voluntary medical surveillance data from 2002 to 2023 to compare the adjusted odds of pneumoconiosis and respiratory impairment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous coal miners. They also examined the proportion of Indigenous miners meeting Department of Labor criteria for federal compensation using different spirometry standards.

Some patients with COPD may go undetected because of underrecognition and/or underreporting of symptoms. New evidence suggests that active case finding of symptomatic people in the community and opportunistic case finding in people at risk for lung cancer or other comorbidities are effective.