Unravelling the natural history of pulmonary function and COPD

Symposium
Chairs: J. Soriano (Bunyola, Spain), B. Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Aims: The aims of this session are to:
- challenge existing models of lung growth and COPD development
- identify the difficulties of studying and modelling the natural history of pulmonary function
- determine the limitations to modify the natural history of COPD with therapeutic interventions
- summarise the most recent literature

Fighting ageing: long live the unreasonable man A. De Grey (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Successes and failures of serial lung function assessments J. Stocks (London, United Kingdom)
Framingham and other cardiovascular cohorts with lung function data G. O'Connor (Boston, United States of America)
Pooling lung function together: setting new standards S. Stanojevic (Etobicoke, Canada)