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The Detroit News |
Homelessness, asthma force family to give up children
The Detroit News Malik Cole is among 24,000 Detroit kids with asthma. A sweet boy whose favorite school subject is science, he has been raised in a nuclear family with his mother, father Dwayne Cole and siblings Jaretha Cole, 11, Shamika Cole, 7, and 4-year-old Jaden, … |
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STAT |
Children with allergies, asthma may be at risk of heart problems, too
STAT Researchers looked at data on 13,275 children between birth and age 17 in the US and found that asthma and allergies in young children were associated with an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity. In addition … |
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Tech Times |
C-section Children More Likely To Develop Asthma: Study
Tech Times Infants born through elective or planned caesarean section are at an increased risk of developing asthma than those born via normal spontaneous delivery, a new study warns. Moms-to-be should receive all advice and knowledge on the benefits and … |
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A systematic review of predictive models for asthma development in children.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2015;15(1):99
Authors: Luo G, Nkoy FL, Stone BL, Schmick D, Johnson MD
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Asthma is the most common pediatric chronic disease affecting 9.6 % of American children. Delay in asthma diagnosis is prevalent, resulting in suboptimal asthma management. To help avoid delay in asthma diagnosis and advance asthma prevention research, researchers have proposed various models to predict asthma development in children. This paper reviews these models.
METHODS: A systematic review was conducted through searching in PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, and OpenGrey up to June 3, 2015. The literature on predictive models for asthma development in children was retrieved, with search results limited to human subjects and children (birth to 18 years). Two independent reviewers screened the literature, performed data extraction, and assessed article quality.
RESULTS: The literature search returned 13,101 references in total. After manual review, 32 of these references were determined to be relevant and are discussed in the paper. We identify several limitations of existing predictive models for asthma development in children, and provide preliminary thoughts on how to address these limitations.
CONCLUSIONS: Existing predictive models for asthma development in children have inadequate accuracy. Efforts to improve these models’ performance are needed, but are limited by a lack of a gold standard for asthma development in children.
PMID: 26615519 [PubMed – in process]
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University of California |
Could Smart Devices Alert Children About Asthma Triggers?
Healthcare Informatics Researchers from UCLA and the University of Southern California are developing a technology platform designed to enable users' smartphones and smart watches to notify them of their unique triggers for asthma attacks. The four-year, $6 million grant … UCLA–USC team to develop tech to predict kids' asthma attacks |
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Study on reducing seasonal asthma attacks in children
HNGnews.com A previous ICAC study found that adding year-round treatment with omalizumab (brand name Xolair) to guidelines-based asthma care decreased the number of seasonal episodes of worsening asthma, with the most striking effects observed during the fall. |
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Omalizumab reduces exacerbation rate in children with asthma
Healio Teach and colleagues conducted a double blind, double placebo-controlled study of 478 children with asthma aged 6 to 17 years old who lived in the inner city. Study participants — all of whom had a recent asthma exacerbation — were randomly assigned … |
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Fox News |
Air pollution linked to asthma in children and teens
Fox News While previous research has linked asthma to air pollution exposure in early childhood, the current study offers new evidence that this connection extends into adolescence, said lead author Dr. Ulrike Gehring, a researcher at Utrecht University in The … |
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Business Insider |
Air pollution linked to asthma in children and teens
Business Insider (Reuters Health) – Exposure to air pollution early in life may contribute to the development of asthma in childhood and adolescence, a European study suggests. Researchers followed more than 14,000 children from birth through ages 14 to 16 and found … |
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Reuters |
Air pollution linked to asthma in children and teens
Reuters (Reuters Health) – Exposure to air pollution early in life may contribute to the development of asthma in childhood and adolescence, a European study suggests. Researchers followed more than 14,000 children from birth through ages 14 to 16 and found … European Study: Air Pollution May Be Linked to Childhood Asthma |
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