Predicting frequent asthma exacerbations using blood eosinophil count and … – Dove Medical Press

Predicting frequent asthma exacerbations using blood eosinophil count and
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Patients and methods: Medical records of 130,547 asthma patients aged 12–80 years from the UK Optimum Patient Care Research Database and Clinical Practice Research Datalink, 1990–2013, were examined for 1 year before (baseline) and 1 year after …

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Emergency room visits for asthma more frequent for Missouri’s poorest children – St. Louis Public Radio


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Emergency room visits for asthma more frequent for Missouri's poorest children
St. Louis Public Radio
Audrey Collins' two daughters were diagnosed with asthma as infants. When they had trouble breathing, she would use a nebulizer machine with a tiny attachment for their faces. “And if it didn't get better, I'd take her to the emergency room. And we

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Allergy, asthma less frequent in foreign-born kids in US – Science News

Allergy, asthma less frequent in foreign-born kids in US
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Spending the first few years of life someplace other than the United States seems to protect against allergy and asthma. An analysis finds that children who were born elsewhere and moved to the U.S. are less prone to these immune ailments than U.S
American-Born Children Are at Higher Risk of AllergiesNew York Times (blog)

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Lower asthma medication ratio correlated to more frequent flare-ups | Pediatrics – Healio


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Lower asthma medication ratio correlated to more frequent flare-ups | Pediatrics
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The researchers examined the correlation of various process measures of asthma care with the occurrence of asthma exacerbations and found that filling no controller prescriptions (versus with filling one or more) and the asthma medication ratio

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