Preface ix Guest Editors xi Introduction xiv List of abbreviations xviii 1. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 1 Bo Lundbäck, Per Bakke, Truls Ingebrigtsen, Peter Lange, Anne Lindberg, Joan B. Soriano and Jørgen Vestbo 2. Asthma and rhinitis 18 Deborah Jarvis 3. Tuberculosis 37 Giovanni Sotgiu, Rosella Centis and Giovanni Battista Migliori 4. Lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma 48 Giuseppe Di Maria, Nicola Ciancio and Marcello Migliore 5. Pneumonia and other infectious diseases 61 Francesco Blasi, Paolo Tarsia and Tobias Welte 6. Interstitial lung diseases 79 Dominique Valeyre, Boris Duchemann, Hilario Nunes, Yurdagül Uzunhan and Isabella Annesi-Maesano 7. Obstructive sleep apnoea in adults 88 Thorarinn Gislason and Ola Sunnergren 8. The economic burden of respiratory diseases: lung cancer and 106 oxygen treatment Alain Vergnenègre, Isabelle Borget and Christos Chouaïd 9. The economic burden of respiratory diseases: COPD and asthma 116 Rune Grønseth and Sven-Arne Jansson 10. Sex, gender and respiratory health 125 Elisabeth Zemp, Sofie Hansen, Cornelia Schneider and Julia Dratva ERS monograph Contents Respiratory Epidemiology Number 65 September 2014