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Passive smoking impairs children's responses to asthma treatment
Medical Xpress Passive smoking is known to worsen asthma symptoms in children and impair their response to inhaled steroid treatment, but how this effect occurs was not known. Researchers at Imperial College London found that children with severe asthma with a parent … Children exposed to passive smoke respond less to asthma treatment |
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Reducing risks for asthmatic mums-to-be
Medical Xpress Pregnant women suffering from asthma could better manage the condition if additional integrated care involving education and monitoring was introduced in Australian hospitals, a new study has found. In research published today in a leading respiratory … |
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Improved Asthma Treatment For African-Americans: NIH Trial To Explore …
Medical Daily Today the National Institutes of Health released a proposed study seeking to improve asthma in a population suffering from it the most: African-Americans. They said that the trial will explore different drugs and genetic factors for treating the … New Trial to Improve Asthma Control in African-Americans New Trial to Study Asthma Drug Responses, Genetic Factors in African-Americans |
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Prenatal vitamin A deficiency tied to postnatal asthma
Medical Xpress Vitamin A deficiency during fetal development can lead to excessive growth of smooth muscle surrounding the airways, making the lungs overly reactive to stimulation from the environment later in life and thus at risk to develop asthma. In these cross … |
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Household mould a trigger for increased asthma risk
Medical Xpress (Medical Xpress)—Reducing the presence of mould in the home may reduce asthma in middle-aged adults according to new research led by the University of Melbourne in collaboration with the University of Tasmania, and Monash University. In a follow-up of … |
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Common Colds During Pregnancy Raise Child's Risk For Asthma, As Mother's …
Medical Daily As if mothers didn't have enough to worry about when it comes to what they put in their bodies during pregnancy, a new study published in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology shows that something as simple as the common cold or case of … |
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Common colds during pregnancy may lead to childhood asthma
Medical Xpress The study, published in the February issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, found a mother's infections and bacterial exposure during pregnancy affect the in utero environment, thus increasing a baby's risk of developing allergy and asthma … |
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Hardships explain much of hospital asthma readmissions among black children …
Medical Xpress Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma – a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, according to a new study. Researchers at Cincinnati Children's … |
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Premature babies 'at higher risk for asthma'
Medical News Today But new research suggests that risks are higher than previously thought for preterm babies to develop childhood asthma, compared with their full-term counterparts. Publishing their results in the journal PLoS Medicine, the researchers studied data on … Preterm Birth Linked with Asthma Asthma, Wheezing Disorders More Common In Premature Babies Premature Birth Linked to Asthma, Wheezing in Childhood |
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Asthma, Wheezing Disorders More Common In Premature Babies
Medical Daily (Photo courtesy of Shutterstock) Premature babies' underdeveloped lungs contribute to a higher risk of developing asthma and other wheezing disorders as children, according to a new study. One out of eight babies is born prematurely (preterm) — before … Preterm birth is associated with increased risk of asthma and wheezing disorders Premature Birth Linked to Asthma, Wheezing in Childhood Preterm Birth Linked with Asthma |
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