20 years of research and advocacy for a healthy and tobacco-free environment.

摘要

The Epidemiology Group has been instrumental in being a forum for one of the greatest endeavours in respiratory epidemiology during the last 20 years, namely the European Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) [1]. Although this project was initiated in one of the two founding organisations, Societas Europaea Physiologiae Clinicae Respiratoriae (SEPCR), ERS has been taking over the responsibility of facilitating this project during all the subsequent years of existence. The ECHRS project has generated a substantial insight to the fundamentals about asthma in the adult population and is still contributing new knowledge about risk factors [2], treatment [3], pheno-types [4] and genetics [5], and, at present, the ECHRS project is taking a step into the field of gene-environment interaction in the framework of the GABRIEL project.