3 out of 4 people with symptomatic asthma report reduced productivity at work – Business Wire (press release)


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3 out of 4 people with symptomatic asthma report reduced productivity at work
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Results were released today by Boehringer Ingelheim from an international survey, providing new insight into the negative impact of persistent asthma symptoms on people's work productivity and their ability to perform everyday activities. The Work …

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Asthma attack risk reduced by green dry cleaning using CO2 vapor – Bel Marra Health


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Asthma attack risk reduced by green dry cleaning using CO2 vapor
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Asthma attack If you have breathing problems or asthma, some household cleaning products can really bother you and irritate your breathing passages. But there's hope. New products to help clean the homes of allergy sufferers could one day make their

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Asthma risk reduced in young children with pet dogs, says study – Caribbean360.com (subscription)


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Asthma risk reduced in young children with pet dogs, says study
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“Earlier studies have shown that growing up on a farm reduces a child's risk of asthma to about half. We wanted to see if this relationship also was true for children growing up with dogs in their homes,” study author Dr Tove Fall said in a statement

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Researchers Use Reduced Airflow, Elevated Exhaled Nitric Oxide to Identify … – Lung Disease News

Researchers Use Reduced Airflow, Elevated Exhaled Nitric Oxide to Identify
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In this study, the research team showed that individuals with severe uncontrolled asthma should be re-examined frequently to decrease exacerbations and to identify patients with constant airflow limitation. Asthma is a chronic lung disease

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Breastfeeding is Associated with Reduced Childhood Hospitalization: Evidence from a Scottish Birth Cohort (1997-2009).

Breastfeeding is Associated with Reduced Childhood Hospitalization: Evidence from a Scottish Birth Cohort (1997-2009).

J Pediatr. 2014 Dec 30;

Authors: Ajetunmobi OM, Whyte B, Chalmers J, Tappin DM, Wolfson L, Fleming M, MacDonald A, Wood R, Stockton DL, Glasgow Centre for Population Health Breastfeeding Project Steering Group

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risk of childhood hospitalization associated with infant feeding patterns at 6-8 weeks of age in Scotland.
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective population level study based on the linkage of birth, death, maternity, infant health, child health surveillance, and admission records for children born as single births in Scotland between 1997 and 2009 (n = 502?948) followed up to March 2012. Descriptive analyses, Kaplan Meier tests, and Cox regression were used to quantify the association between the mode of infant feeding and risk of childhood hospitalization for respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary tract infections, and other common childhood ailments during the study period.
RESULTS: Within the first 6 months of life, there was a greater hazard ratio (HR) of hospitalization for common childhood illnesses among formula-fed infants (HR 1.40; 95% CI 1.35-1.45) and mixed-fed infants (HR 1.18; 95% CI 1.11-1.25) compared with infants exclusively breastfed after adjustment for parental, maternal, and infant health characteristics. Within the first year of life and beyond, a greater relative risk of hospitalization was observed among formula-fed infants for a range of individual illnesses reported in childhood including gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urinary tract infections, otitis media, fever, asthma, diabetes, and dental caries.
CONCLUSIONS: Using linked administrative data, we found greater risks of hospitalization in early childhood for a range of common childhood illnesses among Scottish infants who were not exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks of age.

PMID: 25556021 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

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Psychological intervention reduced hospital admissions, stays for patients … – Healio


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Psychological intervention reduced hospital admissions, stays for patients
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Patients with severe asthma experienced fewer admissions and hospital days after meeting with a clinical psychologist, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Munich. “The results of our study can
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