Table of contents

Original articles

Cough

• Original article: Airway inflammation in patients with chronic non-asthmatic cough (23 October, 2012)

  Marcin Grabowski, Sven Seys, Ann Decraene, Ahmad Kasran, Ellen Dilissen, Wojciech Barg, Wojciech Medrala, Lieven J Dupont, Bernard Panaszek, Dominique M A Bullens

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Aberrantly activated EGFR contributes to enhanced IL-8 expression in COPD airways epithelial cells via regulation of nuclear FoxO3A (25 October, 2012)

  Shyamala Ganesan, Benjamin L Unger, Adam T Comstock, Kristen A Angel, Peter Mancuso, Fernando J Martinez, Umadevi S Sajjan
• Original article: TNFα antagonists for acute exacerbations of COPD: a randomised double-blind controlled trial (17 November, 2012)

  Shawn D Aaron, Katherine L Vandemheen, François Maltais, Stephen K Field, Don D Sin, Jean Bourbeau, Darcy D Marciniuk, J Mark FitzGerald, Parameswaran Nair, Ranjeeta Mallick

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Longitudinal association between lung function and health-related quality of life in cystic fibrosis (9 November, 2012)

  Janice Abbott, Margaret A Hurley, Alison M Morton, Steven P Conway

Interstitial lung disease

• Original article: Treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with the addition of co-trimoxazole: a randomised controlled trial (10 November, 2012) Free

  Ludmila Shulgina, Anthony P Cahn, Edwin R Chilvers, Helen Parfrey, Allan B Clark, Edward C F Wilson, Orion P Twentyman, Anthony G Davison, John J Curtin, Michael B Crawford, Andrew M Wilson

Respiratory epidemiology

• Original Article: The impact of benzodiazepines on occurrence of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia: a nested case-control and survival analysis in a population-based cohort (5 December, 2012)

  Eneanya Obiora, Richard Hubbard, Robert D Sanders, Puja R Myles
• Original article: Risk of pneumonia and pneumococcal disease in people with severe mental illness: English record linkage studies (15 December, 2012)

  Olena O Seminog, Michael J Goldacre

Smoking

• Original article:

  Critical role of fractalkine (CX₃CL1) in cigarette smoke-induced mononuclear cell adhesion to the arterial endothelium

  (9 November, 2012)

  Cristina Rius, Chantal Company, Laura Piqueras, Jose Miguel Cerdá-Nicolás, Cruz González, Emilio Servera, Andreas Ludwig, Esteban J Morcillo, Maria-Jesus Sanz