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Original articles

• Open Access

  GOLD criteria overestimate airflow limitation in one-third of cases in the general Finnish population

  Annette Kainu, Kirsi Timonen, Ari Lindqvist, Päivi Piirilä

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00084-2015; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00084-2015 Published 19 October 2016

  • Disclosures
• Open Access

  Pneumococcal urinary antigen test use in diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia in seven Utah hospitals

  Devin M. West, Lindsay M. McCauley, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Al R. Jephson, Nathan C. Dean

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00011-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00011-2016 Published 19 October 2016
• Open Access

  Leukotriene B4 levels in sputum from asthma patients

  Andrew Higham, Paul Cadden, Thomas Southworth, Matthew Rossall, Umme Kolsum, Simon Lea, Richard Knowles, Dave Singh

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00088-2015; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00088-2015 Published 26 October 2016

  • Disclosures
  • Supplementary material
• Open Access

  Lower extremity and carotid artery disease in COPD

  Carmen Pizarro, Fabian Linnhoff, Fabian van Essen, Simon Pingel, Christian Alexander Schaefer, Nadjib Schahab, Rolf Fimmers, Georg Nickenig, Dirk Skowasch

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00037-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00037-2016 Published 26 October 2016
• Open Access

  Noninvasive ventilation during the weaning process in chronically critically ill patients

  Jesus Sancho, Emilio Servera, Luis Jara-Palomares, Emilia Barrot, Raquel Sanchez-Oro-Gómez, F. Javier Gómez de Terreros, M. Jesús Martín-Vicente, Isabel Utrabo, M. Belen Núñez, Alicia Binimelis, Ernest Sala, Enrique Zamora, Gonzalo Segrelles, Angel Ortega-Gonzalez, Fernando Masa

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00061-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00061-2016 Published 28 October 2016

  • Supplementary material
• Open Access

  Total particulate matter concentration skews cigarette smoke's gene expression profile

  Anna Dvorkin-Gheva, Gilles Vanderstocken, Ali Önder Yildirim, Corry-Anke Brandsma, Ma'en Obeidat, Yohan Bossé, John A. Hassell, Martin R. Stampfli

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00029-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00029-2016 Published 9 November 2016

  • Supplementary material
• Open Access

  Electromagnetic inductance plethysmography is well suited to measure tidal breathing in infants

  Mariann H.L. Bentsen, Morten Eriksen, Merete S. Olsen, Trond Markestad, Thomas Halvorsen

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00062-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00062-2016 Published 24 November 2016

  • Disclosures
  • Supplementary material
• Open Access

  Distal airway dysfunction identifies pulmonary inflammation in asymptomatic smokers

  Kenneth I. Berger, Deepak R. Pradhan, Roberta M. Goldring, Beno W. Oppenheimer, William N. Rom, Leopoldo N. Segal

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00066-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00066-2016 Published 29 November 2016
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  Sleep disordered breathing and autonomic function in overweight and obese children and adolescents

  Annelies Van Eyck, Kim Van Hoorenbeeck, Benedicte Y. De Winter, Luc Van Gaal, Wilfried De Backer, Stijn L. Verhulst

  ERJ Open Res 2: 00038-2016; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00038-2016 Published 12 December 2016