Letters to the Editor — What constitutes an ‘at risk’ COPD patient?

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Inhaled corticosteroids in COPD

The importance of presenting absolute cell numbers when counting cells in biological samples is illustrated by the potentially misleading interpretation of data in the paper by Marco Confalonieri and colleagues. The authors concluded that, in addition to reduced sputum neutrophilia, the number of sputum macrophages increased significantly following treatment with inhaled beclomethasone dipropio...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Inhaled corticosteroids in COPD

The importance of presenting absolute cell numbers when counting cells in biological samples is illustrated by the potentially misleading interpretation of data in the paper by Marco Confalonieri and colleagues. The authors concluded that, in addition to reduced sputum neutrophilia, the number of sputum macrophages increased significantly following treatment with inhaled beclomethasone dipropio...

Letters Letter to the Editor

The good name of TEX One of the many wonderful things about TEX is that its behaviour is essentially the same, no matter where it runs. TEX is a fixed point, identical on all machines. The same goes for METAFONT and the Computer Modern fonts. The author of TEX, Donald Knuth, has made it perfectly clear that he does not object to anyone revising TEX(or METAFONT) just as long as the resulting pro...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Risk factors for death from asthma

Guite and colleagues recently attempted to identify risk factors for certain causes of death among patients admitted to hospital with asthma. The data were originally collected for a diVerent purpose, however, and problems of data quality and completeness limit the conclusions that can be drawn from this analysis. The current study is based on follow up of 2242 (68%) of the original cohort of 3...