Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Spedizione in abbonamento postale 70% - Filiale di
ISSN 0021–2571
Coden: AISSAW 39 (N. 4) 457-610 (2003)
President
Enrico Garaci
Director-General
Sergio Licheri
Volume 39, N. 4, 2003
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA’ – VIALE REGINA ELENA, 299 – ROMA
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Viale Regina Elena, 299
00161 Rome, Italy
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Tel. +39-064990 1
Fax +39-064938 7118
The Istituto Superiore di Sanità
is the leading technical
and scientific body of the Italian
National Health Service.
Its activities include research, trials,
control and training in public health.
E-mail: [email protected]
www.iss.it
(Italian National Institute of Health)
Edited by Publishing Activities
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
July 2004
The peer-reviewed
science journal
of the Istituto
Superiore di Sanità
www.iss.it
Broncopneumopatia cronica ostruttiva:
fisiopatologia, diagnosi e terapia
ANNALI
dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Responsible Director
The journal
Issues published in 2003-2004
Enrico Garaci
Editor-in-chief
Enrico Alleva
Direction and Editorial Office
Settore Attività Editoriali
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Viale Regina Elena, 299
00161 Rome, Italy
Director of Publishing Activities
Giuseppe Vitiello
Editorial Secretary
Federica Napolitani Cheyne
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel. +39-064990 2945
Fax +39-064990 2253
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.iss.it/annali
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Subscription terms - Year 2004
Annual: Italy € 57,00; other countries € 67,00
Each quarterly issue: Italy € 18,00; other countries € 21,00
The journal can be exchanged with periodicals of interest
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Requests of exchange agreements should be addressed to
the Editorial Office.
Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità was first published
in 1965 (from 1938 as Rendiconti dell’Istituto di Sanità
Pubblica).
It is a quarterly science journal which publishes in the
different fields of public health:
• original articles
• reviews
• monographic issues
• brief and technical notes
“Instructions to authors” are printed in each issue and
available from www.iss.it/annali.
Papers, presented for publication, in Italian or English,
must be original and are submitted for review to qualified
referees.
39 (1)
Qualità dell’ambiente marino-costiero
e rischio sanitario
Edited by Irene Di Girolamo and Enzo Funari
39 (2)
Le complicanze macrovascolari nel diabete di tipo 2
Edited by Roberto Raschetti and Marina Maggini
Research and Methodology
39 (3)
Il materiale particellare aerodisperso: proprietà,
misure, norme ed effetti sulla salute
Edited by Achille Marconi and Giorgio Cattani
Research and Methodology
39 (4)
Broncopneumopatia cronica ostruttiva:
fisiopatologia, diagnosi e terapia
Edited by Paolo Montuschi
40 (1)
La donna e l’alcol: aspetti clinici, epidemiologici
e di prevenzione
Edited by Comitato Pari Opportunità of the
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
New biological and diagnostic features
of Toxoplasma Gondii infection
Edited by Maria Cristina Angelici and Simona
Cherchi
Research and Methodology
Annali is edited by the Publishing Activities of Istituto
Superiore di Sanità and is printed by Istituto Poligrafico
e Zecca dello Stato.
Annali is available in full text at www.iss.it/annali, as from
2001. Links to full text are also available from PubMed,
as from 2003.
In press
40 (2)
Biostatistical and ethological approaches
for the promotion of welfare of laboratory
animals and quality of experimental data
Edited by Maria Puopolo, Augusto Vitale
and Giovanni Laviola
Research and Methodology
40 (3)
Riflessione etica e ricerca scientifica: produzione
e diffusione di risorse informative
Edited by Maurella della Seta, Adriana Dracos
and Elisabetta Poltronieri
40 (4)
Research and Methodology
Annali is indexed by:
• MEDLINE
• EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
• CHEMABS
• PASCAL