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Michael I. Polkey is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main fields of study in which Michael I. Polkey has contributed include:

  • Medicine

Subfields within medicine where they have notable involvement are:

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
  • Complementary and alternative medicine

Their research spans various topics, specifically:

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Music Therapy and Health

Michael I. Polkey has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • Thorax
  • BMJ Open Respiratory Research
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ERJ Open Research

Some key recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael I. Polkey include:

  • Pharmacologic Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline (2020), published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Social isolation, loneliness and physical performance in older adults: fixed effects analyses of a cohort study (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Patient symptoms and experience following COVID-19: results from a UK-wide survey (2021), published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research
  • Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Patients with COPD: Recommendations from an International Task Force on Physical Activity (2021), published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases Journal of the COPD Foundation
  • Impact of COVID-19 on people with asthma: a mixed methods analysis from a UK wide survey (2022), published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Nicholas S Hopkinson
  • Keir Philip
  • Sara Buttery
  • Daisy Fancourt
  • Parris Williams

Best Publications

  • Quadriceps strength predicts mortality in patients with moderate to severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Elisabeth Bryony Swallow;Diana Reyes;Nicholas S Hopkinson;William Ding-Cheong Man

  • The prevalence of quadriceps weakness in COPD and the relationship with disease severity

    John Seymour;M. A. Spruit;N. S. Hopkinson;S. A. Natanek

  • ERS statement on respiratory muscle testing at rest and during exercise

    Pierantonio Laveneziana;Andre Albuquerque;Andrea Aliverti;Tony Babb

  • Minimum clinically important difference for the COPD Assessment Test: a prospective analysis

    Samantha S.C. Kon;Jane L. Canavan;Sarah E. Jones;Claire M. Nolan

  • Effect of Home Noninvasive Ventilation With Oxygen Therapy vs Oxygen Therapy Alone on Hospital Readmission or Death After an Acute COPD Exacerbation: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Patrick B. Murphy;Patrick B. Murphy;Sunita Rehal;Gill Arbane;Stephen Bourke;Stephen Bourke

  • An official European Respiratory Society statement on physical activity in COPD

    Henrik Watz;Fabio Pitta;Carolyn L. Rochester;Judith Garcia-Aymerich

  • Oxidative stress-induced mitochondrial dysfunction drives inflammation and airway smooth muscle remodeling in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

    Coen H. Wiegman;Charalambos Michaeloudes;Gulammehdi Haji;Priyanka Narang

  • Respiratory muscle strength and ventilatory failure in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    R A Lyall;N Donaldson;M I Polkey;P N Leigh

  • Bronchoscopic volume reduction with valve implants in patients with severe emphysema.

    Tudor P Toma;Nicholas S Hopkinson;James Hillier;David M Hansell

  • Exercise-induced respiratory muscle fatigue: implications for performance

    Lee M. Romer;Michael I. Polkey

  • The COPD assessment test (CAT): response to pulmonary rehabilitation. A multicentre, prospective study

    James W. Dodd;Lauren Hogg;Jane Nolan;Helen Jefford

  • Sarcopenia in COPD: prevalence, clinical correlates and response to pulmonary rehabilitation

    Sarah E Jones;Matthew Maddocks;Samantha S C Kon;Jane L Canavan

  • Determinants and outcomes of physical activity in patients with COPD: a systematic review

    Elena Gimeno-Santos;Anja Frei;Claudia Steurer-Stey;Jordi de Batlle

  • Community pulmonary rehabilitation after hospitalisation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: randomised controlled study

    William D.-C. Man;Michael I. Polkey;Nora Donaldson;Barry J. Gray

  • Ultrasound measurement of rectus femoris cross-sectional area and the relationship with quadriceps strength in COPD

    John M Seymour;Katie Ward;Paul Sidhu;Zudin Puthucheary

  • Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with endobronchial valves for patients with heterogeneous emphysema and intact interlobar fissures (the BeLieVeR-HIFi study): a randomised controlled trial

    Claire Davey;Zaid Zoumot;Simon Jordan;William H McNulty

  • Quadriceps wasting and physical inactivity in patients with COPD

    Dinesh Shrikrishna;Mehul Patel;Rebecca J. Tanner;John M. Seymour

  • Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation following acute exacerbations of COPD

    John M. Seymour;Lauren Moore;Caroline J. Jolley;Katie Ward

  • Six-minute-walk test in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: minimal clinically important difference for death or hospitalization.

    Michael I. Polkey;Martijn A. Spruit;Lisa D. Edwards;Michael L. Watkins

  • The Prevalence of Quadriceps Weakness in COPD and the Relationship with Disease Severity.

    JM Seymour;MA Spruit;NS Hopkinson;A Sathyapala

Frequent Co-Authors

John Moxham
John Moxham King's College London
Ruth Tal-Singer
Ruth Tal-Singer GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
William MacNee
William MacNee University of Edinburgh
Peter M.A. Calverley
Peter M.A. Calverley University of Liverpool
Emiel F.M. Wouters
Emiel F.M. Wouters Maastricht University
Martijn A. Spruit
Martijn A. Spruit Maastricht University
Paul Cullinan
Paul Cullinan Imperial College London
Peter Goldstraw
Peter Goldstraw Imperial College London
Milo A. Puhan
Milo A. Puhan University of Zurich

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