Annual Congress Munich 2006

Saturday, 02.09.2006
Sunday, 03.09.2006
Monday, 04.09.2006
Tuesday, 05.09.2006
Wednesday, 06.09.2006

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2006; 28: Suppl. 50, abstract number.

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4395 Abstracts
610 Slide presentations
175 Webcasts
95 Handouts
175 Multimedia files

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New investigational approaches to smoking and smoking cessation

Oral Presentation
Chairs: D. S. Postma (Groningen, The Netherlands), R. Polosa (S. Gregorio (Ct), Italy)

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Detection of spirometrically-defined COPD in a population of smokers referred to a smoking cessation clinic I. Nikoloutsou, M. Michailidou, N. Rovina, S. Matsoukas, C. Gratziou (Athens, Greece)
Smoking cessation attenuates AMP but not methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness in heavy smokers A. Origlio, G. Piccillo, A. Bonaccorsi, A. Di Maria, C. Oliveri, R. Polosa (Catania, Italy)
Airway inflammatory cell compounds in smokers and ex-smokers with COPD A. Babusyte, A. Krisiukeniene, R. Sakalauskas, B. Sitkauskiene (Kaunas, Lithuania)
8-isoprostane as a marker of oxidant stress in non-symptomatic cigarette smokers and COPD P. Rytilä, H. Ilumets, M. Myllärniemi, A. Sovijärvi, V. L. Kinnula (Helsinki, Finland)
Greater risk of incident asthma cases in adults with allergic rhinitis: importance of cigarette smoking M. Sarva, W. K. Al-delaimy, C. Russo, C. Oliveri, R. Polosa (Catania, Italy; San Diego, United States Of America)
Evolution and prognostic factors of bronchial asthma in Northern Greece K. Porpodis, D. Papakosta, A. Manika, T. Kontakiotis, L. Tzereme, L. Sichletidis, D. Gioulekas (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Asthma control is worse in asthmatic smokers compared to non-smokers with similar lung function R. Chaudhuri, C. McSharry, A. McCord, E. Livingston, E. Hothersall, M. Spears, N. C. Thomson (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Association between COPD and carotid intimal medial thickness A. Yokoyama, Y. Kitahara, N. Hattori, N. Kohno, H. Hara (Hiroshima, Japan)