Overweight kids at higher risk of developing asthma – HealthCentral.com

Overweight kids at higher risk of developing asthma
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Overweight or obese children are more likely to develop asthma compared to children with a healthy weight, according to new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Researchers analyzed health data from 623,358 children ages 6 to 19 
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Smacking Children May Put Them At Greater Risk Of Developing Cancer [Study] – Business Insider


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Smacking Children May Put Them At Greater Risk Of Developing Cancer [Study]
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Smacking children may put them at greater risk of cancer, heart disease and asthma later in life, a controversial study has suggested. Psychologists asked adults with the diseases if they had been verbally or physically abused as children and found
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Having a dog may protect children from developing asthma – Fox News


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Having a dog may protect children from developing asthma
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Man's best friend is giving kids more than just their loyal companionship – they're giving them strong lungs as well. A new study found that microbes living on pet
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With JaVale McGee’s asthma under control, the Nuggets focus on developing his … – Denver Post

With JaVale McGee's asthma under control, the Nuggets focus on developing his
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The new Nuggets center suffers exercise-induced asthma, which blocks airways and can prevent the flow of oxygen. For years, it fatigued McGee. But now he takes three different inhalers during the day, and if last Wednesday's dunk in Toronto was any

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Wiki as an Innovative New tool for Developing individual Asthma Action Plans

Rather than give you a set of instructions about what to do if you have an Asthma attack, what if your doctor invites you to help write them?

Would that make patients feel more engaged and empowered in managing their health care, and would that ultimately make them happier if not healthier?

These questions are being raised by Dr. Samir Gupta, a respirologist at St. Michael’s Hospital.

His research has found that a wiki – a website developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content – can be an innovative new tool for developing individual asthma action plans.

“We’ve introduced a new way of getting patients engaged in developing tools that might improve their health,” Dr. Gupta said. “We’re empowering patients, involving patients in the health care process.”

Dr. Gupta said a lot of asthma action plans – a one-page set of instructions for managing a patient’s asthma – are developed by experts without input from patients or the clinics that distribute them. When they are difficult to read or understand, patients don’t follow them, especially these days when health care providers face competition from such things as the Internet and iPad apps for patients’ attention.

He got together a group of respirologists, patients, family doctors and asthma educators, set up a wiki and allowed them to choose their own content, fonts, colour and design for an asthma action plan. There were also voting mechanisms to select choices and a blog to explain them. Participants could log on as often as they wanted.

He said the results were collaborative and without the frequent hierarchical issues that can define the patient-doctor relationship.

“People were very engaged,” he said. “People logged on regularly and all the time. There were lots of comments, lots of rich discussion. The end results were highly useful.”

Dr. Gupta said this method of decision-making could be used in other medical fields, as well as in marketing, where consumers could have a role.

Dr. Gupta’s study on wikis for asthma action plans appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Preemie babies at risk of developing asthma – Health24.com


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Preemie babies at risk of developing asthma
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Babies born just a few weeks early appear to face a greater risk of developing asthma when compared with children born at full term, new research reveals. The observation applied to infants born between the 34th and 37th week of pregnancy.
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Increased risk of developing asthma by age of 3 after cesarean delivery – Empowered News


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Increased risk of developing asthma by age of 3 after cesarean delivery
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A new study supports previous findings that children delivered by cesarean section have an increased risk of developing asthma. The study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) suggests that children delivered by cesarean section have

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Increased Risk of Developing Asthma by Age of 3 after Cesarean – Fars News Agency


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Increased Risk of Developing Asthma by Age of 3 after Cesarean
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The study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) suggests that children delivered by Caesarean section have an increased risk of asthma at the age of three. This was particularly seen among children without a hereditary tendency to
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