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Contents
Foreword
Robert A Stockley 8
Professor of Medicine, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham
Asthma
Efficacy and Safety of Combination Inhaled Corticosteroids/Long-acting
β
2
-adrenergic Agonists in Single Inhaler Devices for Asthma 10
Jean Bousquet
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Montpellier
Recent Discoveries in Preventing and Controlling Childhood Asthma 15
Edward Dompeling,
1
Quirijn Jöbsis
1
and Onno van Schayck
2
1. Department of Paediatric Pulmonology; 2. Director, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI),
Maastricht University Medical Centre
Management of Chronic Asthma 20
Christopher John Corrigan
Professor of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, King’s College London School of Medicine,
Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma and Guy’s Hospital
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – A Contemporary View 25
Lorenzo W Klein
1
and Paul D Scanlon
2
1. Fellow; 2. Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Is It Time for Spirometry Screening? 29
Georgios Stratelis
1
and Jörgen Thorn
2
1. Director of Respiratory Medicine, AstraZeneca Sweden; 2. Associate Professor, Sahlgrenska School of Public Health
and Community Medicine, Section of Primary Healthcare, University of Gothenburg
Treatment of Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 32
Helen Ward
1
and Robert A Stockley
2
1. Clinical Research Fellow; 2. Professor of Medicine, Department of Respiratory Medicine,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham
Smoking Cessation
Genetic Determinants of Smoking Cessation 37
Tillie-Louise Hackett
Post-doctoral Fellow, James Hogg’s iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, University of British Columbia
Complementary Therapies for Smoking Cessation –
A Useful Tool or Merely a Smoke Screen? 41
Sundari Ampikaipakan,
1
Andrew Wilson
2
and Nicholas Steel
3
1. Clinical Lecturer, and Specialist Registrar, Respiratory Medicine, University of East Anglia; 2. Senior Clinical Lecturer,
Respiratory Health, University of East Anglia, and Honorary Consultant, Respiratory Medicine, the Norfolk and Norwich
National Health Service (NHS) Trust; 3. Senior Lecturer, Primary Care, University of East Anglia, and Honorary Consultant,
Public Health, Norfolk Primary Care Trust
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