Table of contents

Original articles

Interstitial lung disease

• Original article: The rising incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the UK (27 April, 2011)

  V Navaratnam, K M Fleming, J West, C J P Smith, R G Jenkins, A Fogarty, R B Hubbard

Paediatric lung disease

• Original article: Lung function prior to viral lower respiratory tract infections in prematurely born infants (28 March, 2011)

  Simon B Drysdale, Theresa Wilson, Mireia Alcazar, Simon Broughton, Mark Zuckerman, Melvyn Smith, Gerrard F Rafferty, S L Johnston, Anne Greenough
• Original article: Maternal and child's vitamin D supplement use and vitamin D level in relation to childhood lung function: the KOALA Birth Cohort Study (21 March, 2011)

  Elleke Cremers, Carel Thijs, John Penders, Eugene Jansen, Monique Mommers

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Lung Clearance Index and HRCT are complementary markers of lung abnormalities in young children with CF (21 March, 2011)

  C M Owens, P Aurora, S Stanojevic, A Bush, A Wade, C Oliver, A Calder, J Price, S B Carr, A Shankar, Janet Stocks

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Induced sputum genes associated with spirometric and radiological disease severity in COPD ex-smokers (24 March, 2011)

  Dave Singh, Steven M Fox, Ruth Tal-Singer, Jonathan Plumb, Stewart Bates, Peter Broad, John H Riley, Bartolome Celli

Tuberculosis

• Original article: The impact of isoniazid preventive therapy and antiretroviral therapy on tuberculosis in children infected with HIV in a high tuberculosis incidence setting (2 April, 2011)

  L J Frigati, K Kranzer, M F Cotton, H S Schaaf, C J Lombard, H J Zar

Asthma

• Original article: Prescribing of β-adrenoceptor antagonists in asthma: an observational study (1 April, 2011)

  Daniel R Morales, Bruce Guthrie, Brian J Lipworth, Peter T Donnan, Cathy Jackson
• Original article: Factors influencing asthma remission: a longitudinal study from childhood to middle age (30 March, 2011)

  John A Burgess, Melanie C Matheson, Lyle C Gurrin, Graham B Byrnes, Kristie S Adams, Cathryn L Wharton, Graham G Giles, Mark A Jenkins, John L Hopper, Michael J Abramson, E Haydn Walters, Shyamali C Dharmage
• Original article: Internet-based tapering of oral corticosteroids in severe asthma: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (7 April, 2011)

  Simone Hashimoto, Anneke Ten Brinke, Albert C Roldaan, Ilonka H van Veen, Gertrude M Möller, Jacob K Sont, Els J M Weersink, Jaring S van der Zee, Gert-Jan Braunstahl, Aeilko H Zwinderman, Peter J Sterk, Elisabeth H Bel

Lung cancer

• Original article: Unbalanced oxidant-induced DNA damage and repair in COPD: a link towards lung cancer (2 April, 2011)

  Gaetano Caramori, Ian M Adcock, Paolo Casolari, Kazuhiro Ito, Elen Jazrawi, Loukia Tsaprouni, Gino Villetti, Maurizio Civelli, Chiara Carnini, Kian Fan Chung, Peter J Barnes, Alberto Papi