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Asthma Treatment Before School Cuts Exacerbations
MedPage Today Inner city children with asthma had fewer exacerbations when pretreated prior to the start of school, according to a randomized clinical trial. The trial, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that adding omalizumab to … |
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Stepping down asthma meds can control exacerbations, costs
ModernMedicine Asthma management is expensive, but a new study reveals that stepping down asthma medications can be done safely and without any more complications than others with asthma face. “In patients who have had stable asthma for at least one year, stepping … |
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FPs Find FeNO Useful in Asthma Exacerbations
MedPage Today MONTREAL — Family physicians (FPs) managing symptomatic asthma found a test for airway inflammation useful for clinical decision making but still preferred lung function results, a small clinical study showed. Providing physicians with patients … |
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Study Shows Tralokinumab Does Not Significantly Reduce Asthma Exacerbations in …
Lung Disease News Results from a recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine showed that Tralokinumab did not significantly reduce the rates of asthma exacerbation in patients with severe uncontrolled asthma. However, the results revealed that tralokinumab … |
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Tralokinumab does not significantly reduce asthma exacerbations
Healio The analysis included 452 adults aged 18 to 75 years with severe uncontrolled asthma. Researchers randomly assigned patients to receive either 300 mg of tralokinumab every 2 weeks for 50 weeks (n = 150), every 2 weeks for 12 weeks and then every 4 … |
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Conditions: Asthma; Asthma Exacerbations
Intervention:
Sponsors: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Inner City Asthma Consortium (ICAC)
Not yet recruiting – verified July 2015
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Percentage of participants have asthma exacerbations up to 2 years after …
Healio “The current study suggests that the asthma exacerbation risk after stepping down asthma medication is similar to previous reports despite differences in patient selection, study setting and length of follow-up,” Matthew A. Rank, MD, of the Division of … |
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Condition: Asthma
Intervention: Device: Bronchial thermoplasty with the Alair System
Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Not yet recruiting – verified June 2015
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Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); Asthma; Bronchiectasis
Intervention:
Sponsors: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust; University of Portsmouth
Completed – verified June 2015
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Bariatric Surgery May Help Reduce Asthma Exacerbations
Monthly Prescribing Reference (HealthDay News) — Bariatric surgery cuts the risk of an emergency department visit or hospitalization for asthma exacerbation in obese patients by half, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. |
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