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Women more likely to be hospitalised after asthma emergency care
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US research shows that women who attend the emergency department (ED) with acute asthma are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital than men despite several measures of asthma control, treatment and severity being more favourable in women.

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Clinical features and outcome of hospitalised adults and children with the 2009 influenza A H1N1 infection at Geneva’s University Hospital.

Clinical features and outcome of hospitalised adults and children with the 2009 influenza A H1N1 infection at Geneva’s University Hospital.

Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13177

Authors: Lücker LM, Kherad O, Iten A, Wagner N, Descombes M, Camus V, Kaiser L, Louis-Simonet M

To describe the clinical features and outcomes of hospitalised cases of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus infection at Geneva’s University Hospital during the peak of the epidemic.

PMID: 21416409 [PubMed – in process]

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