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Secondhand Smoke, Asthma Link Remains
MedPage Today From 1999 to 2010, the overall rate of exposure to secondhand smoke among children without asthma declined from 57.3% to 44.2%, but the exposure rate remained nearly constant over the same time period for children with asthma, only declining from … |
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Xolair May Work for Non-Allergic Asthma, Too
MedPage Today In severe, refractory nonatopic asthma, the drug effectively turned down immunoglobulin E receptor levels in inflammatory immune cells, Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, of Hôpital de Bicêtre, France, and colleagues found. The drug also reduced the degree of … |
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Second-Hand Smoke, Asthma Link Remains
MedPage Today From 1999 to 2010, the overall rate of exposure to second hand smoke among children without asthma declined from 57.3% to 44.2%, but the exposure rate remained nearly constant over the same time period for children with asthma, only declining from … |
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Inflammation Marker Higher in Kids with Asthma, Depression
MedPage Today After controlling for variables including other illnesses and socioeconomic status, the presence of both asthma and depression was associated with a sevenfold greater risk of having levels of CRP above 2 mg/L (OR 7.02, 95% CI 1.13-43.48, P<0.05), … |
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Inflammation Marker Higher in Kids with Asthma and Depression
MedPage Today After controlling for variables including other illnesses and socioeconomic status, the presence of both asthma and depression was associated with a sevenfold greater risk of having levels of CRP above 2 mg/L (OR 7.02, 95% CI 1.13-43.48, P<0.05), … |
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Gene Test Gives Clues to Asthma Persistence
MedPage Today Analysis of data from a four-decade longitudinal study involving almost 1,000 people revealed that those with higher genetic risk scores were more than a third more likely to continue to suffer from asthma as adults than were those with lower scores … Test if child will grow out of asthma: Kiwi first Genetic Tests May Predict Who Will Grow Out of Asthma Genetic tests can show if children are likely to grow out of asthma according … |
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Mom's Worrying Linked to Kid's Asthma
MedPage Today Adolescents with asthma reported worse symptoms of breathlessness when they had anxious mothers, and the link may have more to do with genes than environment, researchers suggested. Findings from a Swedish twin study shows that maternal anxiety … |
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Sleep May Ease Asthma in Teens
MedPage Today BALTIMORE — A pilot sleep extension program for teens with asthma was associated with improved daytime lung function and fewer nighttime symptoms, researchers reported here. Teens with asthma who got more sleep during an experimental sleep … |
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Antibody Gets High Marks for Asthma Control
MedPage Today "This study targeted those individuals who, on the basis of eosinophil levels in their blood, seemed to have evidence for Th2-type asthma," principal investigator Sally Wenzel, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh, told MedPage Today. "By using this … |
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Asthma Tied to Sleep Apnea
MedPage Today Participants in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort who self-identified as having asthma at the start of the research in 1988 had a 41% incident obstructive sleep apnea rate, compared with an obstructive sleep apnea incident rate of 29% among participants who … |
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