Annual Congress Amsterdam 2011

Saturday, 24.09.2011
Sunday, 25.09.2011
Monday, 26.09.2011
Tuesday, 27.09.2011
Wednesday, 28.09.2011

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2011; 38: Suppl. 55, abstract number.

Material from 2011

4205 Abstracts
632 Slide presentations
250 Webcasts
66 Handouts
1703 e-posters
250 Multimedia files

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Respiratory epidemiology: methods, definitions and phenotypes

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: D. Mannino (Lexington, United States of America), C. Svanes (Bergen, Norway)

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Awareness of COPD in Portugal general practitioners, follow up 2010 C. Bárbara, J. Cardoso, P. Pamplona, J. Moita, M. J. Matos, P. Simão, S. Conde, G. Coutinho (Lisboa, Coimbra, Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
COPD in Portugal 2010, one step towards a better awareness C. Bárbara, J. Cardoso, P. Pamplona, J. Moita, M. J. Matos, P. Simão, S. Conde, G. Coutinho (Lisboa, Coimbra, Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
Results of the World Spirometry Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina J. A. Mazzei, C. B. Alvarez, M. E. Mazzei, H. Esteva (C.A.Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Early diagnosis of COPD in a high-risk population using spirometric screening in general practice C. Suppli Ulrik, A. Løkke, R. Dahl, L. Plauborg, J. Dollerup, L. Cederkvist Kristiansen, P. Hagge Cording, C. Dehlendorff (Hvidovre, Århus, Copenhagen, Ballerup, Lyngby, Denmark)
Is spirometry screening useful for detecting undiagnosed COPD? K. Levent, S. Murat, K. Fatma, A. Muhammet (Istanbul, Turkey)
Spirometry test quality (home vs clinic performance) in a respiratory epidemiology survey in an Italian population sample G. Sarno, S. Maio, S. Baldacci, S. Cerrai, M. Fresta, F. Martini, A. Angino, F. Di Pede, G. Viegi (Pisa, Palermo, Italy)
Lower limit of normal (LLN) for lung function parameters for over 80 year-old caucasians S. Accordini, A. Fois, B. Piras, G. Porqueddu, V. Spada, F. Borgo, R. de Marco, P. Pirina (Verona, Sassari, Italy)
Canadian prediction equation of spirometric lung function for caucasian adults 18-90 years: Results from the Canadian obstructive lung disease (COLD) study and the Canadian ECRHS study COLD Investigators, ECRHS Investigators (Vancouver, Canada)
Pulmonary resistance measured by impulse oscillometry system (IOS) seems to be related to self-reported COPD and respiratory symptoms S. Frantz, U. Nihlén, M. Dencker, G. Engström, C. G. Löfdahl, P. Wollmer (Malmö, Lund, Sweden)
Definition and validation of a predictive model to identify COPD patients from administrative databases L. Bauleo, N. Agabiti, U. Kirchmayer, V. Belleudi, L. Pinnarelli, S. Cascini, D. Fusco, M. Arcà, M. Davoli (Rome, Italy)
Respiratory symptoms, smoking history and airflow limitation: How should we define COPD? L. Vanfleteren, F. Franssen, G. Rohde, E. Wouters (Maastricht, Horn, Netherlands)
Dyspnoea, obstruction, smoking and exacerbation (DOSE) index and mortality in COPD J. Sundh, C. Janson, K. Lisspers, B. Ställberg, S. Montgomery (Örebro, Uppsala, Sweden)
Determination of COPD characteristics via unsupervised clustering of the ECLIPSE cohort S. Rennard, B. Delafont, N. Locantore, A. Agusti, P. Calverley, E. Silverman, R. Tal-Singer, J. Vestbo (Omaha, Durham, Boston, Philadelphia, United States Of America; Paris, France; Barcelona, Spain; Liverpool, United Kingdom; Copenhagen, Denmark)
Asthma with and without sinusitis, results from the Swedish GA²LEN study R. Middelveld, A. Ek, B. Forsberg, B. Lundbäck, S. E. Dahlén, C. Janson (Stockholm, Umeå, Gothenburg, Uppsala, Sweden)
Statistical cluster analysis on the BTS refractory asthma cohort C. Newby, L. Heaney, A. Menzies-Gow, R. Niven, C. Brightling (Leicester, Belfact, London, Manchester, United Kingdom)
The comparison of early and late onset asthma among elderly asthmatics B. Bozkurt, H. Sahin, D. Özol, Z. Yildirim (Ankara, Turkey)
Wheezing in morbidly obese patients is not always due to asthma A. van Huisstede, A. Rudolphus, H. Zengerink, G. J. van de Geijn, P. Hiemstra, G. J. Braunstahl (Rotterdam, Leiden, Netherlands)
Incidence of asthma and wheeze during adolescence – The impact of study design L. Hedman, A. Bjerg, S. Sundberg, E. Rönmark (Lulea, Umea, Sweden)
Reproducibility of an asthma symptoms and rescue medication diary: Paper and AM3Ô modes A. Ireland, I. Wiklund, P. Dale, R. Hsieh, E. O‘Rourke (Bethesda, United States Of America; Stockley Park, United Kingdom)
Exclusion of asthma for screening purposes using exhaled air molecular profiling by electronic nose N. Fens, Y. Gaarthuis, A. C. Bos, N. J. J. Schlösser, P. J. Sterk (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Zutphen, Netherlands)