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Despite Efforts, ER Visits Spike in California Kids with Asthma
KQED Statewide, the rates of ER visits for asthma symptoms rose by about 18 percent for California children ages 5 to 17 and by 6 percent for children under 5 between 2005 and 2012, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the latest available rates by … |
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Despite guidelines, half of children with asthma do not receive a management plan
Healio SAN DIEGO — Despite an increase in the percentage of children with persistent asthma who have received a written asthma management plan, 49% of patients still did not receive one, with significant variations by race and insurance status. Researchers from Montefiore and Einstein to Present Findings at Pediatric … |
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The association between asthma and rhinitis is stable over time despite diverging trends in prevalence.
Respir Med. 2015 Jan 21;
Authors: Bjerg A, Eriksson J, Ólafsdóttir IS, Middelveld R, Franklin K, Forsberg B, Larsson K, Torén K, Dahlén SE, Janson C
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Despite the well-known association between asthma and rhinitis, in Swedish adults the prevalence of rhinitis rose from 22% to 31% between 1990 and 2008 while asthma prevalence was unchanged. We tested whether the association of rhinitis with asthma was stable over time using the same population-based databases.
METHODS: Two surveys of adults (20-44 years) living in three regions of Sweden, carried out in 1990 (n = 8982) and 2008 (n = 9156) were compared. Identical questions regarding respiratory symptoms, asthma and rhinitis were used. Asthmatic wheeze: Wheeze with breathlessness apart from colds. Current asthma: Asthma attacks and/or asthma medication use.
RESULTS: Subjects with rhinitis had level time trends in asthmatic wheeze, current asthma and most nocturnal respiratory symptoms between 1990 and 2008, adjusted for age, sex, area and smoking. Any wheeze however decreased slightly. In never-smokers asthma symptoms were similarly associated with rhinitis in 1990 and 2008: any wheeze OR 4.0 vs. 4.4 (p = 0.339); asthmatic wheeze OR 6.0 vs. 5.9 (p = 0.937); and current asthma OR 9.6 vs. 7.7 (p = 0.213). In the whole population there were decreases in the asthma symptoms most closely associated to smoking, which decreased by half 1990-2008. Conversely current asthma, which was strongly associated with rhinitis and not with smoking, increased (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: The association of rhinitis with asthma was stable between 1990 and 2008. The pattern in the time trends of asthma outcomes strongly suggests that decreased smoking counterbalanced the driving effect of increased rhinitis on asthma prevalence. The findings illustrate the public health benefits of decreased smoking.
PMID: 25638411 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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The Pharma Letter |
Asthma market to remain stable over next decade, despite generic erosion
The Pharma Letter New market potential in underserved asthma population: Emerging anticytokines that are predicted to launch during the next decade will serve part of the unmet need in the severe, refractory asthma population, which is currently served by only systemic … |
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The Asthma Market Is Forecast to Remain Stable over the Next Decade, Despite …
The Providence Journal BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Decision Resources Group finds that the market for asthma will remain stable, increasing slightly from $15.1 billion in 2013 to $16.1 billion in 2023 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain … |
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The Asthma Market Is Forecast to Remain Stable over the Next Decade, Despite …
MarketWatch BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Decision Resources Group finds that the market for asthma will remain stable, increasing slightly from $15.1 billion in 2013 to $16.1 billion in 2023 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain … |
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Adult asthma in Qatar poorly controlled despite high GDP
Healio Researchers conducted interviews in a cross-sectional study of 520 adults with physician-diagnosed asthma (58% men) from May 2011 to March 2014. Thirty-three percent of patients had uncontrolled asthma; 41%, controlled asthma; and 26%, partly … |
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Alumni Report: Poway High graduate a heptathlon champion despite asthma
Pomerado Newspaper Group “I have asthma so I was hoping not to run,” said the 2011 Poway High graduate about her freshman year at Cal Poly. “But one day I was talking to one of the coaches and was asked how tall I was. I said (5-feet, 9-inches). The coach said 'perfect. You … |
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ITV News |
How Asthma sufferers can stay safe despite "very high" levels of air pollution …
ITV News "The two thirds of people with asthma who find that air pollution makes their asthma worse will be at an increased risk of an attack following the alarming Defra warning of high pollution levels around the country. Asthma UK warns the 3.6 million … Asthma specialists fear wave of attacks from Saharan dust storm UK smog alert: vulnerable people advised to stay indoors Warning to cut outdoor activity |
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Healthy Oshkosh: Exercise still possible despite asthma-like symptoms
The Oshkosh Northwestern Healthy Oshkosh: Exercise-induced asthma: This week's topic is exercise-induced asthma. Healthy Oshkosh is a community partnership with the Oshkosh YMCA produced by Oshkosh Northwestern Media and examines some of the topics that keep Oshkosh … |
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