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Editorials

  • Multiple-breath inert gas washout test and early cystic fibrosis lung disease

    • P Aurora
    Thorax 2010;65:5 373-374 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.132100

  • Effects of steroid therapy on inflammatory cell subtypes in asthma

    • Louis-Philippe Boulet
    Thorax 2010;65:5 374-376 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.131391

  • Assigning an ‘18’ rating to movies with tobacco imagery is essential to reduce youth smoking

    • Christopher Millett,
    • Stanton A Glantz
    Thorax 2010;65:5 377-378 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.133108

Cystic fibrosis

  • Hypertonic saline improves the LCI in paediatric patients with CF with normal lung function

    • Reshma Amin,
    • Padmaja Subbarao,
    • Alisha Jabar,
    • Susan Balkovec,
    • Renee Jensen,
    • Shawn Kerrigan,
    • Per Gustafsson,
    • Felix Ratjen
    Thorax 2010;65:5 379-383 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.125831

Asthma

  • Effects of steroid therapy on inflammatory cell subtypes in asthma

    • Douglas C Cowan,
    • Jan O Cowan,
    • Rochelle Palmay,
    • Avis Williamson,
    • D Robin Taylor
    Thorax 2010;65:5 384-390 Published Online First: 8 December 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.126722

  • Associations between fetal size, maternal α-tocopherol and childhood asthma

    • Stephen W Turner,
    • Doris Campbell,
    • Norman Smith,
    • Leone C A Craig,
    • Geraldine McNeill,
    • Sarah H Forbes,
    • Paul J Harbour,
    • Anthony Seaton,
    • Peter J Helms,
    • Graham S Devereux
    Thorax 2010;65:5 391-397 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.111385

  • Association between airborne pollen and epidemic asthma in Madrid, Spain: a case–control study

    • Iñaki Galán,
    • Alicia Prieto,
    • María Rubio,
    • Teresa Herrero,
    • Patricia Cervigón,
    • Jose Luis Cantero,
    • Maria Dolores Gurbindo,
    • María Isabel Martínez,
    • Aurelio Tobías
    Thorax 2010;65:5 398-402 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.118992

  • Variability of lung function predicts loss of asthma control following withdrawal of inhaled corticosteroid treatment

    • Cindy Thamrin,
    • D Robin Taylor,
    • Stuart L Jones,
    • Béla Suki,
    • Urs Frey
    Thorax 2010;65:5 403-408 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.129668

  • Risk factors for atopic and non-atopic asthma in a rural area of Ecuador

    • Ana Lucia Moncayo,
    • Maritza Vaca,
    • Gisela Oviedo,
    • Silvia Erazo,
    • Isabel Quinzo,
    • Rosemeire L Fiaccone,
    • Martha E Chico,
    • Mauricio L Barreto,
    • Philip J Cooper
    Thorax 2010;65:5 409-416 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.126490
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Smoking

  • Tobacco and tobacco branding in films most popular in the UK from 1989 to 2008

    • Ailsa Lyons,
    • Ann McNeill,
    • Yilu Chen,
    • John Britton
    Thorax 2010;65:5 417-422 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.130716

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation following acute exacerbations of COPD

    • John M Seymour,
    • Lauren Moore,
    • Caroline J Jolley,
    • Katie Ward,
    • Jackie Creasey,
    • Joerg S Steier,
    • Bernard Yung,
    • William D-C Man,
    • Nicholas Hart,
    • Michael I Polkey,
    • John Moxham
    Thorax 2010;65:5 423-428 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.124164
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Sleep-disordered breathing

  • Exacerbation of sleep apnoea by frequent central events in patients with the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome at altitude: a randomised trial

    • Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner,
    • Nicole Schuepfer,
    • Silvia Ulrich,
    • Konrad E Bloch
    Thorax 2010;65:5 429-435 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.125849

Lung cancer

  • National comparisons of lung cancer survival in England, Norway and Sweden 2001–2004: differences occur early in follow-up

    • Lars Holmberg,
    • Fredrik Sandin,
    • Freddie Bray,
    • Mike Richards,
    • James Spicer,
    • Mats Lambe,
    • Åsa Klint,
    • Mick Peake,
    • Trond-Eirik Strand,
    • Karen Linklater,
    • David Robinson,
    • Henrik Møller
    Thorax 2010;65:5 436-441 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.124222

Tuberculosis

  • A prospective large-scale study of methods for the detection of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in refugee children

    • Michaela Lucas,
    • Pam Nicol,
    • Elizabeth McKinnon,
    • Rebecca Whidborne,
    • Andrew Lucas,
    • Aesen Thambiran,
    • David Burgner,
    • Justin Waring,
    • Martyn French
    Thorax 2010;65:5 442-448 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.127555

Interstitial lung disease

  • Diagnostic accuracy, safety and utilisation of respiratory physician-delivered thoracic ultrasound

    • Najib M Rahman,
    • Aran Singanayagam,
    • Helen E Davies,
    • John M Wrightson,
    • Eleanor K Mishra,
    • Y C Gary Lee,
    • Rachel Benamore,
    • Robert J O Davies,
    • Fergus V Gleeson
    Thorax 2010;65:5 449-453 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.128496

Case report

  • Pulmonary hypertension: a contraindication to the use of β-adrenoceptor blocking agents

    • A Peacock,
    • K Ross
    Thorax 2010;65:5 454-455 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.111955

Review

  • The vitamin D axis in the lung: a key role for vitamin D-binding protein

    • L Chishimba,
    • D R Thickett,
    • R A Stockley,
    • A M Wood
    Thorax 2010;65:5 456-462 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.128793

PostScript

  • Letter: Inaccurate clinical nodal staging of non-small cell lung cancer: evidence from the MRC LU22 multicentre randomised trial

    • N Navani,
    • M Nankivell,
    • R J Stephens,
    • M K B Parmar,
    • D Gilligan,
    • M Nicolson,
    • H J M Groen,
    • J P van Meerbeeck
    Thorax 2010;65:5 463 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.118471

Miscellanea

  • Newly identified genetic determinants of lung function

    • Neil Martin
    Thorax 2010;65:5 435 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.136267

  • Changes in the DENND1B gene increase the risk of childhood asthma

    • S Haney
    Thorax 2010;65:5 441 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.136283

Images in Thorax

  • Concurrent acute endobronchial and endotracheal tumour embolism

    • C G Tan,
    • L Shen,
    • L Garske,
    • K Tran
    Thorax 2010;65:5 464 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.117929

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