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Bronchitis vs. asthma: Differences in symptoms, causes, and treatment options
Bel Marra Health An asthmatic attack will not trigger bronchitis, but a bout of bronchitis in an asthmatic patient can cause a flare-up of the asthma symptoms. In fact, this happens so often that many young medical students often ask the question, “can bronchitis lead … |
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Asthma vs. COPD: Differences in symptoms, causes, and treatment options
Bel Marra Health Asthma vs. COPD: Differences in symptoms, causes, and treatment options Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are both respiratory conditions that are chronic and affect a person's breathing. With many shared similarities, the two can … |
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Pneumonia vs. asthma: Differences, risk factors, causes, and treatment
Bel Marra Health Pretty blonde using asthma inhaler Pneumonia and asthma can both impair a person's ability to breathe, but their causes and treatments are vastly different. Asthma is a chronic condition one lives with and manages. Pneumonia, on the other hand, is a … |
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Similarities and differences among eosinophilic esophagitis, proton-pump inhibitor-responsive esophageal eosinophilia, and reflux esophagitis: comparisons of clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological findings in Japanese patients.
J Gastroenterol. 2016 Apr 23;
Authors: Jiao D, Ishimura N, Maruyama R, Ishikawa N, Nagase M, Oshima N, Aimi M, Okimoto E, Mikami H, Izumi D, Okada M, Ishihara S, Kinoshita Y
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BACKGROUND: Esophageal eosinophilia is classified as either eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) or proton-pump inhibitor-responsive esophageal eosinophilia (PPI-REE), depending on the response to PPI treatment. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological findings of EoE and PPI-REE in Japanese patients. In addition, the characteristics of these cases were compared with those of reflux esophagitis (RE) cases.
METHODS: Eleven patients diagnosed with EoE, 16 with PPI-REE, and 39 with RE, who were all consecutively examined from 2005 to 2015 at Shimane University Hospital, were enrolled. Clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological esophageal findings in these groups were retrospectively examined and compared.
RESULTS: The differences in the clinical characteristics of EoE and PPI-REE were not remarkable, though patients with EoE and PPI-REE were younger, presented a higher prevalence of allergic comorbidities, and complained of symptoms of dysphagia more frequently than those with RE. The only noteworthy differences between EoE and PPI-REE were more frequent reports of asthma (36.4 vs. 2.6 %) and food allergy (27.3 vs. 0 %) by patients with EoE (P < 0.05, P < 0.05, respectively). Endoscopic findings in patients with EoE and PPI-REE were similar, with the presence of esophageal erosions in a small percentage of PPI-REE cases being the only difference. There were no histopathological differences between EoE and PPI-REE.
CONCLUSIONS: Comparisons of clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological findings between EoE and PPI-REE showed that these two types have similar characteristics, though EoE patients showed a higher atopic background. Predicting PPI responsiveness in cases with esophageal eosinophilia is difficult and requires further investigation.
PMID: 27108416 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Sex differences in the association between neck circumference and asthma.
Pediatr Pulmonol. 2016 Jan 15;
Authors: Maltz L, Matz EL, Gordish-Dressman H, Pillai DK, Teach SJ, Camargo CA, Hubal MJ, Behniwal S, Prosper GD, Certner N, Marwah R, Mansell DM, Nwachukwu F, Lazaroff R, Tsegaye Y, Freishtat RJ
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INTRODUCTION: The association between obesity and asthma control/quality of life commonly relies on body mass index (BMI) as the anthropomorphic measure. Due to limitations of BMI and the existence of alternative measures, such as neck circumference (NC), we examined the association between NC and asthma control/quality of life, with particular attention to male-female differences.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The AsthMaP-2 Project is an observational study of youth with physician-diagnosed asthma. NC was stratified according to age- and sex-specific cutoffs and associated with asthma control (via Asthma Control Test [ACT]) and quality of life (via Integrated Therapeutics Group [ITG]-Asthma Short Form).
RESULTS: The mean?±?SD age was 11.9?±?3.6 years, and 53% were male (N?=?116). The mean BMI percentile was at the 71?±?28 percentile. Thirty-one participants (27%) met criteria for high NC. Males with high NC had significantly worse asthma control (P?=?0.02) and lower quality of life than those with low NC. No similar association was found for females and the proportion of variability in ACT and ITG was best explained by BMI percentile. Conversely, for males, the proportion of variability in these scores explained by NC was larger than BMI percentile alone (Cohen’s f(2) ?=?0.04-0.09, a small to medium effect size).
DISCUSSION: Among male youth with asthma, combined use of NC and BMI percentile explained asthma control and quality of life better than BMI alone. Future studies of asthma should include measurement of NC and other anthropogenic measures of regional adiposity to clarify sex differences in asthma. Pediatr Pulmonol. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Asthma, COPD and bronchitis: Key differences in common respiratory diseases
Bel Marra Health The differences between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are often more clear once risk factors are examined. Risk factors for asthma are different from risk factors for COPD. With asthma the primary risk factors include … The asthma-COPD overlap syndrome: a new entity? |
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Differences in serial lung function recorded on four data-logging meters.
J Asthma. 2013 Jul 19;
Authors: Adeniyi BO, Moore CV, Erhabor GE, Burge S
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Abstract Introduction Lung function measurements performed several times daily are useful for the diagnosis of occupational asthma. Patient fabrication of hand-recorded charts can limit confidence in the results; this is overcome using electronic meters that log time and measurement. We have compared individual and meter differences in FEV1 and PEF recorded by hand and from meter logs using expert subjects on 4 data-logging spirometers with different methods of measurement and different quality control software. Method Eight workers in a respiratory physiology department were asked to record FEV1 and PEF 2-hourly from waking for 7 days using 4 electronic meters (Easyone, Micro DL, Vitalograph Diary card 2110 and Piko-1) in random order. Subjects hand-recorded the best FEV1 and PEF from each session, this was compared with the logged data. Results Discordant measurements from individuals were lower for FEV1 than PEF and differed from 4.4-19.1% for FEV1 (mean 9.4%, p<0.0001) and 6-23.3% for PEF (mean 12.6, p<0.0001). There were also significant differences between meters for both variables (p<0.0001). The magnitude of the differences in PEF was highest for the Easyone (34 litres/min) and lowest for the Vitalograph Diary card 2110 (14 litres/min) and varied significantly between meters (mean 22 L/min, p=0.002). Conclusion Differences between hand-recorded and logged measurements are unlikely to be due solely to patient fabrication and can be due to quality criteria or other unclear software requirements applied after the results are shown on the meter screen; they differ between meters. Whether the differences shown affect clinical outcome will require further investigation.
PMID: 23865815 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Differences in Health Care Access and Utilization Between Adolescents and Young Adults With Asthma.
Pediatrics. 2013 Apr 22;
Authors: Chua KP, Schuster MA, McWilliams JM
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OBJECTIVE:Studies suggest that young adults have worse health care access, use less primary care, and visit emergency departments more frequently than adolescents. We examined whether these differences existed between older adolescents and young adults with asthma.METHODS:Using nationally representative data from the 1999 to 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we performed cross-sectional comparisons of access and utilization between older adolescents (ages 14-17) and young adults (ages 19-25) with asthma. In longitudinal analyses, we assessed whether changes in health insurance coverage, schooling, and adult presence at home predicted changes in access and utilization.RESULTS:Young adults with asthma were less likely to have a usual source of care (-13.7 percentage points; P < .001) or primary care visit within the past year (-13.9 percentage points; P = .006). They were less likely to fill a short-acting beta-agonist prescription (-10.6 percentage points; P = .02) and more likely to visit the emergency department within the past year (+9.7 percentage points; P = .01). Adjusting for differences in insurance coverage reduced differences in usual source of care and primary care use by 32.4% to 38.0% but reduced the difference in emergency department use by only 10.3%. Among participants aged 16 to 19 in the first survey year, becoming uninsured strongly predicted losing a usual source of care (change relative to no coverage loss: -25.2 percentage points; P = .003).CONCLUSIONS:Compared with older adolescents with asthma, young adults with asthma have worse health care access and may use care less optimally. These differences were associated with but were not completely explained by differences in insurance coverage.
PMID: 23610211 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Differences in fungi present in induced sputum samples from asthma patients …
7thSpace Interactive (press release) There is emerging evidence for the presence of an extensive microbiota in human lungs. It is not known whether variations in the prevalence of species of microbiota in the lungs may have aetiological significance in respiratory conditions such as asthma. |
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Racial differences in asthma are shocking
New Pittsburgh Courier Asthma is a lifelong disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and often causes coughing during the nighttime or early-morning. Today, more than 12 million people in the U.S. have asthma. According to the Centers for Disease Control … |
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