Scientific year in review
Year in reviewAims: To describe recent scientific advances in preterm, infant, childhood and adolescent/adult lung health and in two major lung diseases in adults and the elderly; to describe the impact of preterm and childhood events on lifelong lung heath; to explain how diet, metabolism, genetics and the epigenome modulate asthma severity in childhood; to determine the contributions of lifestyle and environmental factors to the evolution of COPD; and to identify similarities in the mechanisms underlying lung cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.