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UC gets federal money for childhood asthma study
Cincinnati.com The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department has dropped $688,261 on UC to learn about using high-efficiency particulate air – HEPA – filtration in homes with children who suffer from asthma. HEPA filters are special because they must meet U.S. … |
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Condition: Asthma
Interventions: Behavioral: CAPE; Behavioral: Home
Sponsors: University of Illinois at Chicago; Sinai Health System; Cook County Health & Hospitals System; Rush University Medical Center; Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; University of Chicago; Chicago Department of Public Health; Respiratory Health Association; Chicago Asthma Consortium; Illinois Institute of Technology; Illinois Emergency Department Asthma Surveillance Project; Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute
Not yet recruiting – verified December 2014
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Medical News Today |
Bed-sharing toddlers 'more likely to develop asthma in later childhood'
Medical News Today But the researchers found that bed-sharing at 24 months was associated with increased risk of wheezing between the ages of 3 and 6 years old, and toddlers who bed-shared at this age were also at higher risk of being diagnosed with asthma at age 6. Higher rate of asthma seen in toddlers who share a bed with their parents Raised Asthma Risk Seen for Toddlers Who Share Bed With Parents Toddlers who share bed with parents 'have a higher risk of asthma' |
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Conditions: Asthma; Obesity; Family; Child
Interventions: Behavioral: CHAMP; Behavioral: Health education
Sponsors: University of Florida; American Lung Association
Recruiting – verified November 2014
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More evidence needed to link paracetamol, childhood asthma
Healio The researchers said that since paracetamol is used to treat respiratory tract infections — a known risk factor for childhood asthma — it remains uncertain whether paracetamol causes asthma or if the association is due to confounding by respiratory … |
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Sleep Apnea Surgery: A Remedy for Childhood Asthma?
HCPLive University of Chicago (UC) investigators examined the records of 13,506 asthmatic children who underwent adenotonsillectomy (AT) from 2003-2010. Investigators looked for outcomes involving acute asthma exacerbation (AAE), acute status asthmaticus … |
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No Link Between Antibiotics And Childhood Asthma
Science 2.0 It may be difficult to diagnose asthma in small children since newly presented symptoms of asthma can be misinterpreted as a respiratory infection. The children may then have received antibiotics for the supposed infection – which actually is asthma … |
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Medical News Today |
Link between antibiotics and childhood asthma called into question
Medical News Today Several studies have demonstrated a link between maternal antibiotic use during pregnancy or early childhood antibiotic use and increased risk of the child developing asthma. Though such studies have led to general belief of a causal link, researchers … Causal link between antibiotics and childhood asthma dismissed |
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Causal link between antibiotics and childhood asthma dismissed
Medical Xpress In a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The … |
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Researchers dismiss causal link between antibiotics treatment and childhood …
News-Medical.net In a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The … |
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