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Original articles

Asthma

• The association between tobacco and the risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in children and adolescents: analyses from Phase Three of the ISAAC programme (12 June, 2012)

  Edwin A Mitchell, Richard Beasley, Ulrich Keil, Stephen Montefort, Joseph Odhiambo, and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group
• Maternal late-pregnancy serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in relation to childhood wheeze and atopic outcomes (15 June, 2012)

  Katharine C Pike, Hazel M Inskip, Sian Robinson, Jane S Lucas, Cyrus Cooper, Nicholas C Harvey, Keith M Godfrey, Graham Roberts, the Southampton Women's Survey Study Group

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Long-term natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: severe exacerbations and mortality (8 June, 2012)

  Samy Suissa, Sophie Dell'Aniello, Pierre Ernst
• Air travel and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a new algorithm for pre-flight evaluation (5 July, 2012)

  Anne Edvardsen, Aina Akerø, Carl C Christensen, Morten Ryg, Ole H Skjønsberg
• The DECAF Score: predicting hospital mortality in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (15 August, 2012)

  John Steer, John Gibson, Stephen C Bourke
• Association between β-blocker therapy and outcomes in patients hospitalised with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying ischaemic heart disease, heart failure or hypertension (31 August, 2012)

  Mihaela S Stefan, Michael B Rothberg, Aruna Priya, Penelope S Pekow, David H Au, Peter K Lindenauer

Respiratory infection

• A decoy receptor 3 analogue reduces localised defects in phagocyte function in pneumococcal pneumonia (26 June, 2012)

  Helen M Marriott, Marc Daigneault, Alfred A R Thompson, Sarah R Walmsley, Sharonjit K Gill, Derrick R Witcher, Victor J Wroblewski, Paul G Hellewell, Moira K B Whyte, David H Dockrell

Respiratory research

• Evaluation of pulmonary disease using static lung volumes in primary ciliary dyskinesia (7 July, 2012)

  Massimo Pifferi, Andrew Bush, Giovanni Pioggia, Davide Caramella, Gennaro Tartarisco, Maria Di Cicco, Marta Zangani, Iolanda Chinellato, Fabrizio Maggi, Giovanna Tezza, Pierantonio Macchia, Attilio Boner

Sleep disordered breathing

• Utility of overnight pulse oximetry and heart rate variability analysis to screen for sleep-disordered breathing in chronic heart failure (17 July, 2012)

  Neil R Ward, Martin R Cowie, Stuart D Rosen, Vitor Roldao, Manuel De Villa, Theresa A McDonagh, Anita Simonds, Mary J Morrell