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Original article

• Long term non-invasive ventilation in the community for patients with musculoskeletal disorders: 46 year experience and review (1 January, 2000)

  Ahmet Baydur, Elaine Layne, Hilkat Aral, Nageswari Krishnareddy, Ruth Topacio, Glynnis Frederick, Walbert Bodden
• Ongoing airway inflammation in patients with COPD who do not currently smoke (1 January, 2000)

  Steven R Rutgers, Dirkje S Postma, Nick H T ten Hacken, Henk F Kauffman, Thomas W van der Mark, Gerard H Koëter, Wim Timens
• Risk factors and costs associated with an asthma attack (1 January, 2000)

  G Hoskins, C McCowan, R G Neville, G E Thomas, B Smith, S Silverman
• Perinatal risk factors for asthma in Finnish adolescent twins (1 January, 2000)

  Maija Räsänen, Jaakko Kaprio, Tarja Laitinen, Torsten Winter, Markku Koskenvuo, Lauri A Laitinen
• Chronic pulmonary function impairment caused by initial and recurrent pulmonary tuberculosis following treatment (1 January, 2000)

  Eva Hnizdo, Tanusha Singh, Gavin Churchyard
• Towards elimination of tuberculosis in a low income country: the experience of Cuba, 1962–97 (1 January, 2000)

  Antonio Marrero, José A Caminero, Rodolfo Rodríguez, Nils E Billo
• Comparison of systemic cytokine levels in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe pneumonia, and controls (1 January, 2000)

  Torsten T Bauer, Concepción Montón, Antoni Torres, Hernan Cabello, Xavier Fillela, Abel Maldonado, Jose-Maria Nicolás, Elisabet Zavala
• Airway neutrophilia in stable and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome patients following lung transplantation (1 January, 2000)

  Ling Zheng, E Haydn Walters, Chris Ward, Ning Wang, Bernadette Orsida, Helen Whitford, Trevor J Williams, Tom Kotsimbos, Gregory I Snell