Respiratory diseases in children and adults

Symposium
Chairs: M. Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands), E. Eber (Graz, Austria)
Aims: To describe pre- and postnatal early life origins of airway diseases in children and adults; to describe risk factors for the progression of lung disease in patients with cystic fibrosis; and to describe the challenges of lower respiratory tract infections in children and adults.

The early life origins of asthma S. Saglani (London, United Kingdom)
The early life origins of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease A. Agusti Garcia-Navarro (Barcelona, Spain)
Risk factors for progression of cystic fibrosis lung disease from childhood to adulthood S. Stick (Perth (WA), Australia)
Lower respiratory tract infections: challenges in children and adults J. Rademacher (Hannover, Germany)