F. Mihaltan (Bucharest, Romania), T. Hoshino (Kurume, Japan), R. Breyer-Kohansal (Vienna, Austria), A. Demir (Ankara, Turkey)
Clinical pattern of COPD in South India – A global public health problem V.P. Gopinathan, A. Supriya (Trichur, India)
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Course features of COPD in women and men M. Ostrovskyy, O. Varunkiv, I. Savelikhina, M. Kulynych-Miskiv (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)
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Is high level of IgE an additional problem in smoking patients with severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? N. Slepchenko, Y. Mostovoy, A. Sidorov (Vinnitsa, Ukraine)
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Quality of COPD diagnosis in Ukraine: A phone survey I. Vyshnyvetskyy, O. Khitrenko, T. Kugler (Donetsk, Ukraine)
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COPD severity and health impact across the current CanCOLD population J. Bourbeau, W.C. Tan, A. Benedetti, S.D. Aaron, K.R. Chapman, H. Cookson, R. Cowie, J.M. Fitzgerald, R. Goldstein, P. Hernandez, J. Leipsic, F. Maltais, D. Marciniuk, D. O‘Donnell, D.D. Sin (Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax, Quebec, Saskatoon, Kingston, Canada)
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Prevalence and impact of unrecognized COPD on elective surgery J. Ohar, A. Edwards, S. Howard, M. Benshoff, J. Donohue (Winston Salem, United States Of America)
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Clinical and functional characteristics of Italian and Spanish patients with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency B. Piras, I. Ferrarotti, B. Lara, M.T. Martinez, A. Bustamante, P. Pirina, M. Luisetti, M. Miravitlles (Sassari, Italy; Spain, Barcelona, Spain)
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Bacterial airway colonization is not associated with increased procalcitonin in stable COPD D. Stolz, R. Louis, J. Aerts, T. Welte, A. Lacoma, W. Boersma, K. Kostikas, F. Blasi, B. Milenkovic, C. Prat, J. Rakic, L. Boeck, P. Castellotti, G. Rohde, A. Torres, S. Hertel, S. Giersdorf, M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland; Liege, Belgium; Breda, Alkmaar, Maastricht, Netherlands; Hanover, Hennigsdorf, Germany; Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; Thessaloniki, Greece; Milan, Italy; Belgrade, Republic Of Serbia)
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Air travel and COPD: A new algorithm for pre-flight evaluation A. Edvardsen, A. Akerø, C.C. Christensen, M. Ryg, O.H. Skjønsberg (Hakadal, Oslo, Norway)
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Indications of small airways disease in healthy smokers E. Telenga, L. Keulers, N. ten Hacken, D. Postma, M. van den Berge (Groningen, Netherlands)
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Usefulness of COPD assessment test (CATÔ) for the management of COPD according to GOLD 2011 T. Motegi, T. Ishii, K. Hattori, Y. Kusunoki, R. Furutate, K. Yamada, A. Gemma, K. Kida (Tokyo, Japan)
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COPD assessment test (CAT) in the evaluation of COPD V. Almadana, J. Sanchez, A. Gómez-Bastero, A. Valido, M. Pavón, T. Montemayor (Seville, Spain)
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Relationship between COPD assessment test (CAT) and declines of lung function in COPD patients H.J. Kwak, J.Y. Moon, T.H. Kim, S.H. Kim, J.W. Sohn, D.H. Shin, S.S. Park, H.J. Yoon (Seoul, Republic Of Korea)
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Evaluation of the quality of life with COPD assessment test A. Corlateanu, V. Slutu, V. Botnaru, D. Rusu (Chisinau, Republic Of Moldova)
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COPD care and management at nurse-led COPD-clinics in Swedish primary health care: A literature review E. Österlund Efraimsson, E. Åberg Lennmalm, A. Nyberg (Falun, Sweden)
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Significance of physician judged chronic bronchitis versus emphysema M. Han, M. Brose, U.M. Goehring, F. Martinez (Ann Arbor, United States Of America; Konstanz, Germany)
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Predictors of mortality in a well-characterised group of patients with COPD S.B. Shaker, A. Dirksen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Epidemiology of the "chronic bronchitis" phenotype of COPD-patients in Belgium and Luxembourg J.L. Corhay, W. Vincken, M. Schlesser, P. Bossuyt, J. Imschoot (Liège, , Brussels, Belgium; Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
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An old disease from a new perspective – GOLD 2011 recommendations for COPD R. Rubinsztajn, T. Przybylowski, M. Maskey-Warzechowska, K. Karwat, R. Chazan (Warsaw, Poland)
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Quantification of elastin fibre remodelling in COPD using probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) M. Bennett, J. Fleming, T. Havelock, J. Conway, P. Howarth (Southampton, United Kingdom)
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