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Many options available for asthma control
The Durango Herald It may produce inflammation in the small airways that can result in airway spasm. This often leads to chest tightness, wheezing and/or cough. There are both genetic and environmental factors that influence the development and severity of asthma. |
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Tiotropium improved asthma control as add-on therapy to ICS
Healio “Our findings show that in patients with moderate asthma who are receiving medium-dose inhaled corticosteroids, addition of once-daily tiotropium significantly improves lung function and asthma control compared with placebo, and has similar efficacy … |
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Reduced airway lumen area, poor symptom control linked in smokers with asthma
Healio Neil C. Thomson, MD, of the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study on 93 participants with asthma, including 46 smokers, to determine if symptom control in … |
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Pregnant Women with Asthma Need to Curb the Urge to Ask for Antibiotics
Infection Control Today Getting sick when you're pregnant is especially difficult, but women whose children are at risk for developing asthma should avoid antibiotics, according to a new study. The study, published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the … Public Release: 3-Mar-2015 Pregnant women with asthma need to curb urge to … Pregnant Women with Asthma Need to Curb Urge to ask for Antibiotics Marijuana: The allergen you never knew existed |
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What does it take to control your asthma?
Inquirer.net Anyone who has asthma is all too familiar with the onset of an asthma episode, more popularly known as an “asthma attack.” This may start off as a mild tickle or an “itchy feeling” in the upper chest followed soon enough by the urge to cough. The cough … |
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Asthma Control Test not effective in younger African American children
Healio Krista Todoric, MD, of the department of pediatrics, division of allergy, immunology and rheumatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues, conducted a retrospective study on and assessed all pediatric patients with asthma … |
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UAB Wins Grant to Study Effects of Fungi on Asthma
Infection Control Today Many persons with asthma are also allergic to common fungi and mold, and a reaction to those allergens can exacerbate asthma symptoms. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have received a $1.75 million, four-year grant from the … |
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Mucus Proteins May Control Asthma
Bioscience Technology Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell meant to attack parasites, but when too many of them get activated in tissues they can worsen asthma, allergies, eczema and other chronic diseases. Northwestern Medicine scientists have revealed that sugars on … |
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Home visits may improve asthma control in adults
Clinical Advisor For low-income adults with uncontrolled asthma, visits from community health workers (CHWs) improved disease control results of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine indicate. To determine if CHW home visits for adults with uncontrolled asthma … |
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The concept of control of COPD in clinical practice.
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2014;9:1397-405
Authors: Soler-Cataluña JJ, Alcázar-Navarrete B, Miravitlles M
Abstract
Treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires a personalized approach according to the clinical characteristics of the patients, the level of severity, and the response to the different therapies. Furthermore, patients with the same level of severity measured by the degree of airflow obstruction or even with multidimensional indices may have very different symptoms and limitations for daily activities. The concept of control has been extensively developed in asthma but has not been defined in COPD. Here, we propose a definition of COPD control based on the concepts of impact and stability. Impact is a cross-sectional concept that can be measured by questionnaires such as the COPD Assessment Test or the Clinical COPD Questionnaire. Alternatively, impact can be assessed by the degree of dyspnea, the use of rescue medication, the level of physical activity, and sputum color. Stability is a longitudinal concept that requires the absence of exacerbations and deterioration in the aforementioned variables or in the COPD Assessment Test or Clinical COPD Questionnaire scores. Control is defined by low impact (adjusted for severity) and stability. The concept of control in COPD can be useful in the decision making regarding an increase or decrease in medication in the stable state.
PMID: 25548521 [PubMed – in process]
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