Study shows cost-effective expert recommended asthma test underutilized by … – Medical Xpress

Study shows cost-effective expert recommended asthma test underutilized by
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Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found, for the first time, that spirometry was underutilized for asthma diagnosis and management in U.S. adults from 2001 to 2011, despite it's accuracy, cost effectiveness and

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Targeting CCL28 Protein Structure May Help Prevent Asthma, Study Shows – Lung Disease News


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Targeting CCL28 Protein Structure May Help Prevent Asthma, Study Shows
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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the air passages characterized by airflow obstruction and with common symptoms of wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath. Currently, there is no cure for asthma and affects approximately 25 million people

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Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living, research shows – Memphis Commercial Appeal


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Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living, research shows
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There are, however, pockets around the country in suburban and rural areas where the prevalence of asthma is just as high, according to the study, recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The common links among 23,000

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Study Shows People with Asthma Avoid Talking With Their Doctors About Work … – Lung Disease News


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Study Shows People with Asthma Avoid Talking With Their Doctors About Work
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shutterstock_247085752 According to a recent study, people with asthma avoid talking with their doctors about work-related asthma. The findings were published in the current issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. The study reveals that

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Study shows that babies born prematurely grow out of their asthma – News-Medical.net

Study shows that babies born prematurely grow out of their asthma
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Large-scale Danish study from the University of Copenhagen shows that premature babies grow out of the asthma which they are likely to develop in early life. Babies born prematurely are more likely to develop asthma, but they grow out of it. This is

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Study shows race, ethnicity and poverty impact childhood asthma more than … – West Hawaii Today

Study shows race, ethnicity and poverty impact childhood asthma more than
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For more than 50 years, researchers have described childhood asthma as a plague of the inner city — urban areas where 20 percent or more of the population lives below the poverty line. But a new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University

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