Health education

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Editorials
Where there’s smoke... there’s tuberculosis

Stephen Gordon and Jamie Rylance
Thorax 2009; 64: 649-650. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Environmental exposure
Traffic-related air pollution correlates with adult-onset asthma among never-smokers

N Künzli, P-O Bridevaux, L-J S Liu, R Garcia-Esteban, C Schindler, M W Gerbase, J Sunyer, D Keidel, T Rochat on behalf of SAPALDIA Team (Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults)
Thorax 2009 64: 664 -670; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2008.110031 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ Web only appendix ]  

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Associations of IL6 polymorphisms with lung function decline and COPD

J-Q He, M G Foreman, K Shumansky, X Zhang, L Akhabir, D D Sin, S F P Man, D L DeMeo, A A Litonjua, E K Silverman, J E Connett, N R Anthonisen, R A Wise, P D Paré, and A J Sandford
Thorax 2009 64: 698 -704; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2008.111278 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ Web only appendix ]  

Tuberculosis
Association between biomass fuel and pulmonary tuberculosis: a nested case–control study

C Kolappan and R Subramani
Thorax 2009 64: 705 -708; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2008.109405 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Respiratory physiology
Neural respiratory drive in obesity

J Steier, C J Jolley, J Seymour, M Roughton, M I Polkey, and J Moxham
Thorax 2009 64: 719 -725; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2008.109728 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ Web only appendix ]  

Review
The overlap syndrome of asthma and COPD: what are its features and how important is it?

P G Gibson and J L Simpson
Thorax 2009; 64: 728-735. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials
Breast feeding and childhood asthma

Wendy H Oddy
Thorax 2009; 64: 558-559. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Nocturnal non-invasive nasal ventilation in stable hypercapnic COPD: a randomised controlled trial

R D McEvoy, R J Pierce, D Hillman, A Esterman, E E Ellis, P G Catcheside, F J O’Donoghue, D J Barnes, R R Grunstein on behalf of the Australian trial of non-invasive Ventilation in Chronic Airflow Limitation (AVCAL) Study Group
Thorax 2009 64: 561 -566; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2008.108274 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Environmental exposure
Traffic-related air pollution in relation to respiratory symptoms, allergic sensitisation and lung function in schoolchildren

M Rosenlund, F Forastiere, D Porta, M De Sario, C Badaloni, and C A Perucci
Thorax 2009 64: 573 -580; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2007.094953 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ Web only appendix ]  

Respiratory infection
Risk factors for complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema on presentation to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia

J D Chalmers, A Singanayagam, M P Murray, C Scally, A Fawzi, and A T Hill
Thorax 2009 64: 592 -597; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2008.105080 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]