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Original articles

Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency

• Original article:

  Serum levels and genotype distribution of α₁-antitrypsin in the general population

  (16 March, 2012)

  Ilaria Ferrarotti, Gian Andri Thun, Michele Zorzetto, Stefania Ottaviani, Medea Imboden, Christian Schindler, Arnold von Eckardstein, Lucia Rohrer, Thierry Rochat, Erich W Russi, Nicole M Probst-Hensch, Maurizio Luisetti

Asthma

• Original article: Sputum inflammatory phenotypes are not stable in children with asthma (29 February, 2012)

  Louise Fleming, Lemonia Tsartsali, Nicola Wilson, Nicolas Regamey, Andrew Bush

Asthma and the environment

• Original article: Poor air quality in classrooms related to asthma and rhinitis in primary schoolchildren of the French 6 Cities Study (21 March, 2012)

  Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Marion Hulin, François Lavaud, Chantal Raherison, Christine Kopferschmitt, Frederic de Blay, Denis André Charpin, Caillaud Denis

Chronic cough

• Original article: Randomised controlled trial of amoxycillin clavulanate in children with chronic wet cough (24 May, 2012)

  Julie Marchant, Ian Brent Masters, Anita Champion, Helen Petsky, Anne B Chang

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Antielastin B-cell and T-cell immunity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (22 March, 2012) Free

  Manuela Rinaldi, An Lehouck, Nele Heulens, Renaud Lavend'Homme, Vincent Carlier, Jean-Marie Saint-Remy, Marc Decramer, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez, Wim Janssens
• Original article: Bronchodilator responsiveness as a phenotypic characteristic of established chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (13 June, 2012)

  Paul Albert, Alvar Agusti, Lisa Edwards, Ruth Tal-Singer, Julie Yates, Per Bakke, Bartolome R Celli, Harvey O Coxson, Courtney Crim, David A Lomas, William MacNee, Bruce Miller, Stephen Rennard, Edwin K Silverman, Jørgen Vestbo, Emiel Wouters, Peter Calverley

Respiratory infection

• Original article: Predictors of clinical outcome in a national hospitalised cohort across both waves of the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic 2009–2010 in the UK (10 March, 2012)

  Puja R Myles, Malcolm G Semple, Wei Shen Lim, Peter J M Openshaw, Elaine M Gadd, Robert C Read, Bruce L Taylor, Stephen J Brett, James McMenamin, Joanne E Enstone, Colin Armstrong, Barbara Bannister, Karl G Nicholson, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, on behalf of the Influenza Clinical Information Network (FLU-CIN)

Respiratory epidemiology

• Original article: Worldwide patterns of bronchodilator responsiveness: results from the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study (29 April, 2012)

  Wan C Tan, William M Vollmer, Bernd Lamprecht, David M Mannino, Anamika Jithoo, Ewa Nizankowska-Mogilnicka, Filip Mejza, Thorarinn Gislason, Peter G J Burney, A Sonia Buist, for the BOLD Collaborative Research Group

Sleep disordered breathing

• Original article: Volume targeted versus pressure support non-invasive ventilation in patients with super obesity and chronic respiratory failure: a randomised controlled trial (1 March, 2012)

  Patrick Brian Murphy, Craig Davidson, Matthew David Hind, Anita Simonds, Adrian J Williams, Nicholas S Hopkinson, John Moxham, Michael Polkey, Nicholas Hart
• Original article: Sleep apnoea attenuates the effects of a lifestyle intervention programme in men with visceral obesity (6 March, 2012)

  Anne-Laure Borel, Xavier Leblanc, Natalie Alméras, Angelo Tremblay, Jean Bergeron, Paul Poirier, Jean-Pierre Després, Frédéric Series