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Educational intervention improves clinical outcomes for patients with asthma
Healio Vicente Plaza, MD, PhD, of the department of respiratory medicine at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues evaluated 230 patients with mild to moderate uncontrolled asthma. Researchers randomly assigned some … |
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Health care costs double for patients with asthma–COPD overlap syndrome
Healio Researchers divided participants into two groups — those with asthma alone (n = 26,060), and those with asthma–COPD overlap syndrome (n = 6,505). Patients in each group were matched for sex, age, region, health plan type, index year and index month. |
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FOXP3 mRNA expression lower among children with asthma, food allergy
Healio Aneta Krogulska, MD, PhD, of the department of pediatric allergology, gastroenterology and nutrition at Medical University of Lodz in Poland, and colleagues assessed FOXP3 mRNA expression in 82 children with asthma. Fifteen had atopic asthma and an … |
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Anxiety, depression linked to poor asthma control
Healio Giorgio Ciprandi, MD, of the department of medicine at IRCCS — Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino in Italy, and colleagues analyzed 263 patients with asthma by performing a clinical examination that included testing lung function and … |
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Black children with asthma less likely to respond to intramuscular steroid
Healio Sergio Koo, MPH, of Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in London, and colleagues evaluated 79 children with severe therapy-resistant asthma for several factors, including assessment of steroid response. Fifty-four (68%) of these children … |
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Allergy immunotherapy prevents asthma in patients with allergic rhinitis
Healio “Allergy immunotherapy effectively prevents the progression of allergic rhinitis to asthma in a real-life setting. This asthma-preventive effect is strongest in products containing native allergens,” Jochen Schmitt, MD, MPH, of the Center for Evidence … |
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Researchers identify link between asthma, Parkinson's disease
Healio Researchers also reported a dose-dependent relationship between greater asthma severity and higher risk for Parkinson's disease. Chih-Ming Cheng, MD, of the department of psychiatry at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues … |
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FDA approves Spiriva Respimat for asthma in adults, adolescents
Healio “The [FDA] approval of Spiriva Respimat in asthma establishes a new class of inhaled asthma therapy and provides an efficacious, new option for patients,” William Mezzanotte, MD, MPH, said in the release. “There is extensive clinical evidence … |
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Inhaler satisfaction improves clinical outcomes for patients with chronic asthma
Healio Patients with allergic rhinitis and those with smoking history appeared associated with less optimal asthma control, results showed. David Price, MD, of the division of applied health sciences at University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, and … |
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Vitamin D supplementation may reduce exacerbation of childhood asthma
Healio “Randomized controlled trials provide some low-quality evidence to support vitamin D supplementation for the reduction of asthma exacerbations,” Riverin and colleagues wrote. “Evidence on the benefits of vitamin D supplementation for other asthma … |
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