Table of contents

Original articles

Asthma

• Original article: Genome-wide association study to identify genetic determinants of severe asthma (5 May, 2012)

  Y I Wan, N R G Shrine, M Soler Artigas, L V Wain, J D Blakey, M F Moffatt, A Bush, K F Chung, W O C M Cookson, D P Strachan, L Heaney, B A H Al-Momani, A H Mansur, S Manney, N C Thomson, R Chaudhuri, C E Brightling, M Bafadhel, A Singapuri, R Niven, A Simpson, J W Holloway, P H Howarth, J Hui, A W Musk, A L James, the Australian Asthma Genetics Consortium, M A Brown, S Baltic, M A R Ferreira, P J Thompson, M D Tobin, I Sayers, I P Hall
• Original article: Effect of mindfulness training on asthma quality of life and lung function: a randomised controlled trial (27 April, 2012) Free

  Lori Pbert, J Mark Madison, Susan Druker, Nicholas Olendzki, Robert Magner, George Reed, Jeroan Allison, James Carmody

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Discussing an uncertain future: end-of-life care conversations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A systematic literature review and narrative synthesis (16 July, 2012)

  Natalie Momen, Peter Hadfield, Isla Kuhn, Elizabeth Smith, Stephen Barclay
• Original article: Concurrent use of indacaterol plus tiotropium in patients with COPD provides superior bronchodilation compared with tiotropium alone: a randomised, double-blind comparison (27 April, 2012)

  Donald A Mahler, Anthony D'Urzo, Eric D Bateman, Serir A Özkan, Tracy White, Clare Peckitt, Cheryl Lassen, Benjamin Kramer, on behalf of the INTRUST-1 and INTRUST-2 study investigators

Respiratory physiology

• Original article: Ventilation heterogeneity in the acinar and conductive zones of the normal ageing lung (27 April, 2012)

  Sylvia Verbanck, Bruce R Thompson, Daniel Schuermans, Harpal Kalsi, Martyn Biddiscombe, Chris Stuart-Andrews, Shane Hanon, Alain Van Muylem, Manuel Paiva, Walter Vincken, Omar Usmani

Interstitial lung disease

• Original article: Deficiency of tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand exacerbates lung injury and fibrosis (11 April, 2012)

  Emmet E McGrath, Allan Lawrie, Helen M Marriott, Paul Mercer, Simon S Cross, Nadine Arnold, Vanessa Singleton, Alfred A R Thompson, Sarah R Walmsley, Stephen A Renshaw, Ian Sabroe, Rachel C Chambers, David H Dockrell, Moira K B Whyte
• Original article: The development and validation of the King's Brief Interstitial Lung Disease (K-BILD) health status questionnaire (3 May, 2012)

  Amit S Patel, Richard J Siegert, Katherine Brignall, Patrick Gordon, Sophia Steer, Sujal R Desai, Toby M Maher, Elisabetta A Renzoni, Athol U Wells, Irene J Higginson, Surinder S Birring

Lung cancer

• Original article: Recent trends in resection rates among non-small cell lung cancer patients in England (16 June, 2012)

  Sharma P Riaz, Karen M Linklater, Richard Page, Michael D Peake, Henrik Møller, Margreet Lüchtenborg

Sleep disordered breathing

• Original article: Continuous measures of driving performance on an advanced office-based driving simulator can be used to predict simulator task failure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (5 May, 2012)

  Dipansu Ghosh, Samantha L Jamson, Paul D Baxter, Mark W Elliott

Tuberculosis

• Original article: Revisiting tuberculous pleurisy: pleural fluid characteristics and diagnostic yield of mycobacterial culture in an endemic area (21 March, 2012)

  Sheng-Yuan Ruan, Yu-Chung Chuang, Jann-Yuan Wang, Jou-Wei Lin, Jung-Yien Chien, Chun-Ta Huang, Yao-Wen Kuo, Li-Na Lee, Chong-Jen J Yu