Table of contents

Original article

• Relationship between early life respiratory illness, family size over time, and the development of asthma and hay fever: a seven year follow up study (1 August, 1999)

  Anne-Louise Ponsonby, David Couper, Terence Dwyer, Allan Carmichael, Andrew Kemp
• Long term outcome of soybean epidemic asthma after an allergen reduction intervention (1 August, 1999)

  Josep M Antó, Joan B Soriano, Jordi Sunyer, María J Rodrigo, Ferran Morell, Josep Roca, Robert Rodríguez-Roisín, Mark C Swanson
• Mite, cat, and cockroach exposure, allergen sensitisation, and asthma in children: a case-control study of three schools (1 August, 1999)

  Richard Sporik, Susan P Squillace, Jim Mark Ingram, Gary Rakes, Richard W Honsinger, Thomas A E Platts-Mills
• Objectives, methods and content of patient education programmes for adults with asthma: systematic review of studies published between 1979 and 1998 (1 August, 1999)

  Philippe Sudre, Stéphane Jacquemet, Christophe Uldry, Thomas V Perneger
• Prevalence of depression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review (1 August, 1999)

  L van Ede, C J Yzermans, H J Brouwer
• Glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) polymorphism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 August, 1999)

  T Ishii, T Matsuse, S Teramoto, H Matsui, M Miyao, T Hosoi, H Takahashi, Y Fukuchi, Y Ouchi
• Variation of bronchoalveolar lymphocyte phenotypes with age in the physiologically normal human lung (1 August, 1999)

  Keith C Meyer, Paula Soergel
• Management of antenatally diagnosed pulmonary sequestration associated with congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (1 August, 1999)

  Madan Samuel, David M Burge
• Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in inflammatory and malignant pleural effusions (1 August, 1999)

  D R Thickett, L Armstrong, A B Millar