Pediatric Asthma Admissions Varied Greatly By Neighborhood – Family Practice News Digital Network


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Pediatric Asthma Admissions Varied Greatly By Neighborhood
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So suggests the wide variability within a single Ohio county in hospitalization rates for children with acute asthma, Dr. Andrew F. Beck, a fellow in general and community pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said at the annual

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GERD Associated With Worse Infant Respiratory Disease – Family Practice News Digital Network

GERD Associated With Worse Infant Respiratory Disease
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Bronchiolitis is a prominent risk factor for childhood asthma, and GERD is associated with worsened asthma severity (J. Asthma 2011;48:366-73). As yet unknown is whether preexisting GERD (clinically significant reflux) in infants modulates the severity

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Budesonide/Formoterol for Asthma Shows Cardiovascular Safety – Family Practice News Digital Network

Budesonide/Formoterol for Asthma Shows Cardiovascular Safety
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ORLANDO – Budesonide/formoterol pressurized metered-dose inhaler demonstrated similar cardiovascular safety to that of budesonide treatment alone in a study of 742 black adolescents and adults with moderate to severe asthma. There has been concern that

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Alternaria Sensitization Common in Children With Severe Asthma – Family Practice News Digital Network


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Alternaria Sensitization Common in Children With Severe Asthma
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ORLANDO – Children with severe asthma may have their already serious symptoms further worsened by sensitization to common household fungi in the genus Alternaria, suggested investigators at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma,

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What does an early spring mean for asthma sufferers? – Delco News Network

What does an early spring mean for asthma sufferers?
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But if you have allergies and asthma, pollen and other allergens and irritants may have made you feel even more miserable. Asthma is a chronic medical condition that, when uncontrolled, can significantly affect your life and-at its worst-be
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Young adult study finds asthma correlated with high-risk behaviours – Science Network Western Australia

Young adult study finds asthma correlated with high-risk behaviours
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Image: ??RESEARCH from Curtin University's National Drug Research Institute has found young adults with asthma have higher rates of smoking and alcohol use compared to non-asthmatics. The “Lifestyle of Young Australian Adults with Asthma” study

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Asthma Drugs in Pregnancy Might Pose Risk for Kids – International News Network


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Asthma Drugs in Pregnancy Might Pose Risk for Kids
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GENEVA: Infants born to mothers who use inhaled glucocorticoids, a class of steroids to treat asthma during pregnancy may be at risk for endocrine and metabolic disorders, a new study indicates. Researchers looked at more than 65000 mother-child pairs

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Master regulator gene discovered in virus-induced asthma – Science Network Western Australia

Master regulator gene discovered in virus-induced asthma
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The discovery of interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7) as the hub of the molecular web underlying an asthma attack opens up opportunities for the development of new treatments for virus-induced asthma exacerbations.A SIMPLE question regarding what

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