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Obese children with asthma need higher corticosteroid doses – Clinical Advisor


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Obese children with asthma need higher corticosteroid doses
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HealthDay News — Overweight and obese children with asthma do not respond as well to corticosteroids as normal weight children and require higher daily doses of the medication, study data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of …
AAAAI: Corticosteroid Response in Asthma Impacted by BMIMD News (press release)
Heavy Kids May Not Respond as Well to Asthma MedsHispanically Speaking News (blog)

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Children With Asthma at Higher Risk for Shingles: Study – MSN Health & Fitness

Children With Asthma at Higher Risk for Shingles: Study
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MONDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — Children with asthma have a higher risk for developing shingles — a painful skin rash — following infection with the herpes zoster virus, new research reveals. The authors noted that 1 million Americans are …
Heavy kids may not respond as well to asthma medsWBRC
Asthma medications may be less effective in overweight children with asthmaPediatric SuperSite

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Asthma medications may be less effective in overweight children with asthma – Pediatric SuperSite

Asthma medications may be less effective in overweight children with asthma
Pediatric SuperSite
Pia Hauk, MD, and colleagues from National Jewish Health in Denver studied 61 children with asthma between the ages of 2 and 18 years. Each child was evaluated according to his or her body mass index (BMI), daily inhaled corticosteroid dose and …
Heavy Kids May Not Respond as Well to Asthma MedsU.S. News & World Report

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New outcome measures may reduce disparities in children with asthma – News-Medical.net

New outcome measures may reduce disparities in children with asthma
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Newly proposed asthma outcome measures will help standardize and improve results from the hundreds of millions of dollars the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends annually to study asthma, according to the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, …
Standardized outcome measures proposed for asthma clinical researchScience Codex

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Obesity Linked to Asthma in Children – Health.com


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Obesity Linked to Asthma in Children
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29 (HealthDay News) — Children and teens who are overweight or obese are more likely to have asthma than their healthy-weight peers, a new study finds. The strength of the association between asthma and obesity varied by race and ethnicity.
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Race and Obesity Linked to Increased AsthmadailyRx

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Obesity Linked to Asthma in Children – MSN Health & Fitness

Obesity Linked to Asthma in Children
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29 (HealthDay News) — Children and teens who are overweight or obese are more likely to have asthma than their healthy-weight peers, a new study finds. The strength of the association between asthma and obesity varied by race and ethnicity.
Race and Obesity Linked to Increased AsthmadailyRx

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