Research groups
Colleges
Helen Ashdown
BM BCh (Oxon) MA (Cantab) MRCP MRCGP DCH PGDip (Health Research) DPhil (Oxon)
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care
- General Practitioner
- Janet Vaughan Tutor in Clinical Medicine, Somerville College
My principal research interests are in respiratory disease, diagnosis and diagnostic accuracy studies.
Previous projects have been diverse and include child health, infectious disease and diagnostic accuracy of medical devices available for purchase by the public.
In 2019 I completed my DPhil funded by the National Institute for Health Research, investigating whether we can use near-patient testing including blood eosinophil count to predict responsiveness to inhaled steroids for long-term management of patients with COPD in primary care.
I am currently continuing my research into diagnosis and management of respiratory disease, particularly focusing on the use of primary care relevant biomarkers and novel technology in airways disease.
Recent publications
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Diagnosis and Severity Assessment of COPD Using a Novel Fast-Response Capnometer and Interpretable Machine Learning.
Journal article
Talker L. et al, (2024), COPD, 21
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M13 ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA USING EITHER SINGLE OR LONGITUDINAL BREATH RECORDS CAPTURED ON A NOVEL FAST RESPONSE CAPNOMETER
Conference paper
Broomfield H. et al, (2023), Thorax, 78, A266 - A267
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A descriptive cohort study of withdrawal from inhaled corticosteroids in COPD patients
Journal article
Patel S. et al, (2022), npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 32
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Blood eosinophils to guide inhaled maintenance therapy in a primary care COPD population
Journal article
Ashdown HF. et al, (2022), ERJ Open Research, 8
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Statin prescription in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and risk of exacerbations: a retrospective cohort study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.
Journal article
Smith MC. et al, (2021), BMJ Open, 11