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Original article

• Low bone mineral density in adults with cystic fibrosis (1 November, 1999)

  C S Haworth, P L Selby, A K Webb, M E Dodd, H Musson, R McL Niven, G Economou, A W Horrocks, A J Freemont, E B Mawer, J E Adams
• Nocturnal oximetry for the diagnosis of the sleep apnoea hypopnoea syndrome: a method to reduce the number of polysomnographies? (1 November, 1999)

  Eusebi Chiner, Jaime Signes-Costa, Juan Manuel Arriero, Juan Marco, Isabel Fuentes, Antonia Sergado
• Mandibular advancement oral appliance therapy for obstructive sleep apnoea: effect on awake calibre of the velopharynx (1 November, 1999)

  C F Ryan, L L Love, D Peat, J A Fleetham, A A Lowe
• Scottish Confidential Inquiry into Asthma Deaths (SCIAD), 1994–6 (1 November, 1999)

  C E Bucknall, R Slack, C C Godley, T W Mackay, S C Wright
• A confidential inquiry into asthma deaths in Wales (1 November, 1999)

  M L Burr, B H Davies, A Hoare, A Jones, I J Williamson, S K Holgate, R Arthurs, I G C Hodges
• Temporal trends and ethnic variations in asthma mortality in Singapore, 1976–1995 (1 November, 1999)

  T P Ng, Wan C Tan
• An empirical comparison of the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and the Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire (CRQ) in a clinical trial setting (1 November, 1999)

  Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Bianca Roos, J A Van Noord
• Domestic biomass fuel combustion and chronic bronchitis in two rural Bolivian villages (1 November, 1999)

  R Albalak, A R Frisancho, G J Keeler
• Clinical significance of respiratory bronchiolitis on open lung biopsy and its relationship to smoking related interstitial lung disease (1 November, 1999)

  James Moon, Ronald M du Bois, Thomas V Colby, David M Hansell, Andrew G Nicholson
• Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (1 November, 1999)

  Jun-ichi Ashitani, Hiroshi Mukae, Haruko Taniguchi, Toshihiko Ihi, Jun-ichi Kadota, Shigeru Kohno, Shigeru Matsukura
• Dietary factors and pulmonary function: a cross sectional study in middle aged men from three European countries (1 November, 1999)

  Cora Tabak, Henriette A Smit, Leena Räsänen, Flaminio Fidanza, Alessandro Menotti, Aulikki Nissinen, Edith J M Feskens, Dick Heederik, Daan Kromhout
• Particulate air pollution and the blood (1 November, 1999)

  Anthony Seaton, Anne Soutar, Vivienne Crawford, Robert Elton, Susan McNerlan, John Cherrie, Monika Watt, Raymond Agius, Robert Stout