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Original article

• Increased mortality among sleepy snorers: a prospective population based study (1 August, 1998) Free

  Eva Lindberg, Christer Janson, Kurt Svärdsudd, Thorarinn Gislason, Jerker Hetta, Gunnar Boman
• The prevalence of clinically significant sleep apnoea syndrome in the Netherlands (1 August, 1998) Free

  A Knuistingh Neven, H A M Middelkoop, B Kemp, H A C Kamphuisen, M P Springer
• Evaluation of an auto-CPAP device for treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea (1 August, 1998) Free

  J H Ficker, G H Wiest, G Lehnert, B Wiest, E G Hahn
• Association of years of occupational quartz exposure with spirometric airflow limitation in Norwegian men aged 30–46 years (1 August, 1998) Free

  Sjur Humerfelt, Geir E Eide, Amund Gulsvik
• Fluticasone propionate 750 μg/day versus beclomethasone dipropionate 1500 μg/day: comparison of efficacy and adrenal function in paediatric asthma (1 August, 1998) Free

  Dominic Fitzgerald, Peter Van Asperen, Craig Mellis, Mareea Honner, Lucia Smith, Geoffry Ambler
• Individual allergens as risk factors for bronchial responsiveness in young adults (1 August, 1998) Free

  Susan Chinn, Deborah Jarvis, Christina Luczynska, Peter Burney
• Raised levels of exhaled carbon monoxide are associated with an increased expression of heme oxygenase-1 in airway macrophages in asthma: a new marker of oxidative stress (1 August, 1998) Free

  Ildikó Horváth, Louise E Donnelly, András Kiss, Paolo Paredi, Sergei A Kharitonov, Peter J Barnes
• Influence of atmospheric nitric oxide concentration on the measurement of nitric oxide in exhaled air (1 August, 1998) Free

  Massimo Corradi, Alessandro Pelizzoni, Maria Majori, Angelo Cuomo, Eriberto de’ Munari, Alberto Pesci
• Acute inhalation of cigarette smoke increases lower respiratory tract nitric oxide concentrations (1 August, 1998) Free

  D C Chambers, W S Tunnicliffe, J G Ayres
• Nitrite levels in breath condensate of patients with cystic fibrosis is elevated in contrast to exhaled nitric oxide (1 August, 1998) Free

  L P Ho, J A Innes, A P Greening
• Increases in CD4+ T lymphocytes, macrophages, neutrophils and interleukin 8 positive cells in the airways of patients with bronchiectasis (1 August, 1998) Free

  M Gaga, A M Bentley, M Humbert, J Barkans, F O’Brien, C G Wathen, A B Kay, S R Durham
• Interstitial laser photocoagulation of normal lung parenchyma in rats (1 August, 1998) Free

  D I Fielding, G Buonaccorsi, A Hanby, M R Hetzel, S G Bown