Thorax: 71 (7)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (14 June, 2016) Free
Nicholas Hart, Gisli Jenkins, Alan Smyth

Editorials

First year of the thoracic triumvirate (14 June, 2016)
Nicholas Hart, Gisli Jenkins, Alan Robert Smyth
Are welders more at risk of respiratory infections? (21 April, 2016)
David Coggon, Keith T Palmer
CT-diagnosed emphysema and lung cancer mortality: novel association or old news? (21 April, 2016)
Jennifer K Quint
From latent to active TB: are IGRAs of any use? (14 June, 2016)
Wei Shen Lim

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Metformin in severe exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial (25 February, 2016)
Andrew W Hitchings, Dilys Lai, Paul W Jones, Emma H Baker

Critical care

Original article:
Low-pathogenicity Mycoplasma spp. alter human monocyte and macrophage function and are highly prevalent among patients with ventilator-acquired pneumonia
(12 April, 2016)
T J Nolan, N J Gadsby, T P Hellyer, K E Templeton, R McMullan, J P McKenna, J Rennie, C T Robb, T S Walsh, A G Rossi, A Conway Morris, A J Simpson

Occupational lung disease

Original article: Are welders more at risk of respiratory infections? Findings from a cross-sectional survey and analysis of medical records in shipyard workers: the WELSHIP project (30 March, 2016)
Andrea Marongiu, Omar Hasan, Anila Ali, Sharoon Bakhsh, Bobby George, Nabeel Irfan, Cosetta Minelli, Cristina Canova, Susie Schofield, Sara De Matteis, Paul Cullinan

Paediatric lung disease

Original article:
Cost-effectiveness of FE_NO-based and web-based monitoring in paediatric asthma management: a randomised controlled trial
(5 April, 2016)
Thijs Beerthuizen, Sandra Voorend-van Bergen, Wilbert B van den Hout, Anja A Vaessen-Verberne, Hein J Brackel, Anneke M Landstra, Norbert J van den Berg, Johan C de Jongste, Peter J Merkus, Mariëlle W Pijnenburg, Jacob K Sont
Original article: Majority of never-smokers with airflow limitation do not have asthma: the Copenhagen General Population Study (25 March, 2016)
Yunus Çolak, Shoaib Afzal, Børge G Nordestgaard, Peter Lange

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Per cent emphysema is associated with respiratory and lung cancer mortality in the general population: a cohort study (5 April, 2016)
Elizabeth C Oelsner, J Jeffrey Carr, Paul L Enright, Eric A Hoffman, Aaron R Folsom, Steven M Kawut, Richard A Kronmal, David J Lederer, Joao A C Lima, Gina S Lovasi, Benjamin M Smith, Steven J Shea, R Graham Barr

Respiratory research

Original article: The histone deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A suppresses murine innate allergic inflammation by blocking group 2 innate lymphoid cell (ILC2) activation (12 April, 2016)
Shinji Toki, Kasia Goleniewska, Sara Reiss, Weisong Zhou, Dawn C Newcomb, Melissa H Bloodworth, Matthew T Stier, Kelli L Boyd, Vasiliy V Polosukhin, Sriram Subramaniam, R Stokes Peebles

Tuberculosis

Original article: Statin treatment is associated with a decreased risk of active tuberculosis: an analysis of a nationally representative cohort (3 March, 2016)
Chih-Cheng Lai, Meng-tse Gabriel Lee, Shih-Hao Lee, Wan-Ting Hsu, Shy-Shin Chang, Shyr-Chyr Chen, Chien-Chang Lee
Original article: Prognostic value of interferon-γ release assays, a population-based study from a TB low-incidence country (30 March, 2016)
Thomas Stig Hermansen, Troels Lillebaek, Kristina Langholz Kristensen, Peter H Andersen, Pernille Ravn

Research letters

Smokers are less likely than non-smokers to seek help for a lung cancer ‘alarm’ symptom (24 February, 2016)
C Friedemann Smith, K L Whitaker, K Winstanley, J Wardle
Reduced physical activity in lymphangioleiomyomatosis compared with COPD and healthy controls: disease-specific impact and clinical correlates (11 March, 2016)
Thomas Bahmer, Henrik Watz, Benjamin Waschki, Marco Gramm, Helgo Magnussen, Klaus F Rabe, Hubert Wirtz, Detlef Kirsten, Anne Kirsten
Obstructive sleep apnoea and frequency of occupational injury (15 March, 2016)
A J Hirsch Allen, Julie E Park, Patrick R Daniele, John Fleetham, C Frank Ryan, Najib T Ayas

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: Lesson of the month: selective use of cyclophosphamide in pregnancy for severe autoimmune respiratory disease (31 March, 2016)
Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Sangita Agarwal, Boris Lams

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Pectus excavatum in paintings by Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652) (22 February, 2016)
Davide Lazzeri, Fabio Nicoli
Images in thorax: Unilateral vanishing lung syndrome (3 March, 2016)
Marco Anile, Daniele Diso, Ilaria Onorati, Sara Mantovani, Federico Venuta

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (14 June, 2016)
Elizabeth Batalla-Duran

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July 2016 - Volume 71 - 7

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Occupational lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Tuberculosis

Research letters

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

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Table of contents

July 2016 - Volume 71 - 7

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Occupational lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Tuberculosis

Research letters

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Issue Information