| EDITORIALS |
| 1093 | Towards better-quality research reporting in Respirology
Peter Eastwood, Lieve Bultynck, Anke van Eekelen & Christel Norman |
| 1095 | Detecting anxiety and depression in patients diagnosed with an interstitial lung disease Can we do better?
Anne Marie Russell & Toby M Maher |
| INVITED REVIEW SERIES |
| Respiratory Disease: Using Lung Function Measurements to Greater Advantage |
| 1097 | Lung transplantation in adults and children: Putting lung function into perspective
Bruce Robert Thompson, Glen Philip Westall, Miranda Paraskeva & Gregory Ian Snell |
| 1106 |
Relationships between ventilatory impairment, sleep hypoventilation and type 2 respiratory failure
David Hillman, Bhajan Singh, Nigel McArdle & Peter Eastwood |
| Update in Interventional Pulmonology |
| 1117 | Molecular alterations in non-small-cell lung cancer: Perspective for targeted therapy and specimen management for the bronchoscopist
Kasia Czarnecka-Kujawa & Kazuhiro Yasufuku |
| 1126 |
Bronchoscopic interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Masamichi Mineshita & Dirk-Jan Slebos |
| Modern Statistical Methods In Respiratory Medicine |
| 1138 |
Classifying patients by their characteristics and clinical presentations; the use of latent class analysis
Darren Wraith & Rory Wolfe |
| REVIEWS |
| 1149 | Can non-invasive positive pressure ventilation prevent endotracheal intubation in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome? A meta-analysis
Jian Luo, Mao-yun Wang, Hui Zhu, Bin-miao Liang, Dan Liu, Xia-ying Peng, Rong-chun Wang, Chun-tao Li, Chen-yun He & Zong-an Liang |
| 1158 | 'They said it was bronchiolitis; is it going to turn into asthma doctor?'
Dimos Gidaris, Don Urquhart & Michael B Anthracopoulos |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
| Asthma |
| 1165 | Correlation between levels of exhaled hydrogen sulfide and airway inflammatory phenotype in patients with chronic persistent asthma
Jing Zhang, Xinmao Wang, Yahong Chen & Wanzhen Yao |
| 1170 |
Influence of distinct asthma phenotypes on lung function following weight loss in the obese
David G Chapman, Charles G Irvin, David A Kaminsky, Patrick M Forgione, Jason H T Bates & Anne E Dixon |
| Bronchiectasis |
| 1178 |
Efficacy of azithromycin in the treatment of bronchiectasis
Albert I Lourdesamy Anthony & Umadevi Muthukumaru |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
| 1183 | Feasibility of 8-OHdG formation and hOGG1 induction in PBMCs for assessing oxidative DNA damage in the lung of COPD patients
Shifang Yang, Hongxu Wu, Junling Zhao, Xiaojie Wu, Jianping Zhao, Qin Ning, Yongjian Xu & Jungang Xie |
| 1191 | Level of adherence to the GOLD strategy document for management of patients admitted to hospital with an acute exacerbation of COPD
Clarice Y Tang, Nicholas F Taylor, Christine F McDonald & Felicity C Blackstock |
| 1198 | Mini Nutritional Assessment Short-Form predicts exacerbation frequency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Masanori Yoshikawa, Yukio Fujita, Yoshifumi Yamamoto, Motoo Yamauchi, Koichi Tomoda, Noriko Koyama & Hiroshi Kimura |
| 1204 |
The relationship between fat-free mass index and pulmonary hyperinflation in COPD patients
Leonardo Silveira, Paulo José Zimermann Teixeira, Cassia C da Costa, Rafael M de Souza, Pietro Krauspenhar Merola, Caroline Colombo, Renata D Marques & Danilo C Berton |
| Cystic Fibrosis |
| 1209 | Development and psychometric validation of a cystic fibrosis knowledge scale
Louise Balfour, Michael Armstrong, Crystal Holly, Ena Gaudet, Shawn Aaron, George Tasca, William Cameron & Smita Pakhale |
| Interstitial Lung Disease |
| 1215 | Dyspnoea and comorbidity contribute to anxiety and depression in interstitial lung disease
Anne E Holland, Julio F Fiore Jr , Emily C Bell, Nicole Goh, Glen Westall, Karen Symons, Leona Dowman & Ian Glaspole |
| See article, page 1095 |
| Lung Cancer |
| 1222 |
The incidence of lung cancer by histological type: A population-based study in Tianjin, China during 1981–2005
Jinyu Kong, Fangxiu Xu, Min He, Kexin Chen & Biyun Qian |
| Sleep and Ventilation |
| 1229 |
Pre-flight assessment in patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Masood Ali, Ian E Smith, Atul Gulati & John M Shneerson |
| 1233 | Obesity hypoventilation syndrome in Japan and independent determinants of arterial carbon dioxide levels
Yuka Harada, Yuichi Chihara, Masanori Azuma, Kimihiko Murase, Yoshiro Toyama, Chikara Yoshimura, Toru Oga, Hiroshi Nakamura, Michiaki Mishima, Kazuo Chin & Japan Respiratory Failure Group |
| 1241 | Utility of respiratory ward-based NIV in acidotic hypercapnic respiratory failure
Chirag Dave, Alice Turner, Ajit Thomas, Ben Beauchamp, Biman Chakraborty, Asad Ali, Rahul Mukherjee & Dev Banerjee |
| SCIENTIFIC LETTER |
| 1248 | The pathogenesis of pneumothorax in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: A hypothesis
Paul Christiaan Johannesma, Arjan C Houweling, Jan-Hein T M van Waesberghe, R J Jeroen A van Moorselaar, Theo M Starink, Fred H Menko & Pieter E Postmus |
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| 1251 | Forthcoming Meetings
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