Table of contents

Original articles

Sleep-disordered breathing

• Original article: Health, social and economical consequences of sleep-disordered breathing: a controlled national study (2 January, 2011) Free

  Poul Jennum, Jakob Kjellberg
• Original article: Effectiveness of home respiratory polygraphy for the diagnosis of sleep apnoea and hypopnoea syndrome (20 May, 2011)

  Juan F Masa, Jaime Corral, Ricardo Pereira, Joaquin Duran-Cantolla, Marta Cabello, Luis Hernández-Blasco, Carmen Monasterio, Alberto Alonso, Eusebi Chiner, Manuela Rubio, Estefania Garcia-Ledesma, Laura Cacelo, Rosario Carpizo, Lirios Sacristan, Neus Salord, Miguel Carrera, José N Sancho-Chust, Cristina Embid, Francisco-José Vázquez-Polo, Miguel A Negrín, Jose M Montserrat

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Nocturnal saturation and glucose tolerance in children with cystic fibrosis (27 January, 2011)

  Dharmeshkumar Suratwala, June S H Chan, Andrea Kelly, Lisa J Meltzer, Paul R Gallagher, Joel Traylor, Ronald C Rubenstein, Carole L Marcus
• Original article: Use of culture and molecular analysis to determine the effect of antibiotic treatment on microbial community diversity and abundance during exacerbation in patients with cystic fibrosis (26 January, 2011)

  M M Tunney, E R Klem, A A Fodor, D F Gilpin, T F Moriarty, S J McGrath, M S Muhlebach, R C Boucher, C Cardwell, G Doering, J S Elborn, M C Wolfgang

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Lung function impairment, COPD hospitalisations and subsequent mortality (22 April, 2011)

  Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Ignasi Serra Pons, David M Mannino, Andrea K Maas, David P Miller, Kourtney J Davis
• Original article: Outdoor air pollution and respiratory health in patients with COPD (1 April, 2011)

  Janet L Peacock, H Ross Anderson, Stephen A Bremner, Louise Marston, Terence A Seemungal, David P Strachan, Jadwiga A Wedzicha
• Original article: Occupational exposures and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a hospital based case–control study (17 April, 2011)

  Nadira Govender, Umesh G Lalloo, Rajen N Naidoo
• Original article: Neural respiratory drive as a physiological biomarker to monitor change during acute exacerbations of COPD (19 May, 2011)

  Patrick B Murphy, Atul Kumar, Charles Reilly, Caroline Jolley, Stephan Walterspacher, Fiammetta Fedele, Nicholas S Hopkinson, William D-C Man, Michael I Polkey, John Moxham, Nicholas Hart

Asthma

• Original article: Nocturnal asthma monitoring by chest wall electromyography (17 April, 2011)

  Joerg Steier, Caroline J Jolley, Michael I Polkey, John Moxham

Smoking

• Original article:

  Lung function and exposure to workplace second-hand smoke during exemptions from smoking ban legislation: an exposure–response relationship based on indoor PM_2.5 and urinary cotinine levels

  (6 May, 2011)

  Hak-Kan Lai, Anthony J Hedley, James Repace, Ching So, Qiu-Ying Lu, Sarah M McGhee, Richard Fielding, Chit-Ming Wong