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Category: Asthma Studies

  • How Fungi Can Make Asthma Worse and What to Do About It

    Hello, dear members and subscribers of the World Asthma Foundation! We hope you are doing well and breathing easy. In this post, we are going to share with you some news about our Defeating Asthma initiative and our continuing series on Severe Asthma. As you may know, the World Asthma Foundation is a community-based non…

  • How a Common Bacterium Can Trigger and Worsen Your Asthma

    Introduction Hello and welcome to the World Asthma Foundation blog, where we share the latest news and information on asthma and related topics. We are a non-profit organization that pursues our mission and vision with a strategy to support the asthma community with educational resources. Our goal is to foster improved outcomes, better doctor-patient relationships,…

  • Candida’s Role in Inflammation and Autoimmune Response: Implications for Severe Asthma

    Welcome Message from the World Asthma Foundation Hello to our dedicated community and newcomers alike. At the World Asthma Foundation (WAF), we’re united by a singular, important mission: to Defeat Asthma. Our approach is rooted in fostering awareness, enhancing education, and promoting research that seeks to unravel the complexities of Asthma. As we strive towards…

  • Gut and Lung Connection to Asthma – Rodney Dietert, PhD

    In this fifth in a series of interviews with Rodney Dietert PhD, he talks about communication between the gut and lung. Dr. Dietert is Cornell University Professor Emeritus, Health Scientist Head of Translational Science + Education for SEED and the Author of the Human Super-Organism How the Microbiome is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy…

  • Missing Microbes and Asthma Link Say Multiple Studies – Martin J Blaser MD

    Defeating Asthma Series uncovers New Hope for Asthma Management In this third interview with Martin J Blaser MD, Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical…

  • Asthma and Indoor Air Pollution:

    Key insights for Asthmatics: Makes Asthma Worse Significant Association with Exacerbations Among this panel of relatively moderate to severe asthmatics, the respiratory irritants produced by several domestic combustion sources were associated with increased morbidity. Although there is abundant clinical evidence of asthmatic responses to indoor aeroallergens, the symptomatic impacts of other common indoor air pollutants…

  • Asthma and COVID-19 Update Study on Risk

    Asthma does not appear to increase the risk or influence its severity, according to University study Whats new Rutgers researchers say further study is needed but those with the chronic respiratory disease don’t appear to be at a higher risk of getting extremely ill or dying from coronavirus.“Older age and conditions such as heart disease,…

  • Gut Health and Asthma

    The gut and lungs are anatomically distinct, but potential anatomic communications and complex pathways involving their respective microbiota have reinforced the existence of a gut–lung axis (GLA). Compared to the better-studied gut microbiota, the lung microbiota, only considered in recent years, represents a more discreet part of the whole microbiota associated to human hosts. Gut…

  • Non-Eosinophilic Asthma (NEA)

    Although non-eosinophilic asthma (NEA) is not the best known and most prevalent asthma phenotype, its importance cannot be underestimated. NEA is characterized by airway inflammation with the absence of eosinophils, subsequent to activation of non-predominant type 2 immunologic pathways. This phenotype, which possibly includes several not well-defined subphenotypes, is defined by an eosinophil count <2%…

  • Why Cell Biology of Asthma Matters

    Cell types responsible for the major pathology in asthma: 1. Epithelial cells – initiate airway inflammation mucus, and 2. Smooth muscle cells – contract excessively to cause airway narrowing. The clinical manifestations of asthma are caused by obstruction of the conducting airways of the lung. Two airway cell types are critical for asthma pathogenesis: epithelial…