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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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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 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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Preterm birth is associated with increased risk of asthma and wheezing disorders
Medical Xpress Children who are born preterm have an increased risk developing asthma and wheezing disorders during childhood according to new research published in PLOS Medicine. The research by Jasper Been, from the Maastricht University Medical Centre … Premature Birth Linked to Asthma in Childhood Preterm Birth Linked with Asthma Premature babies 'more likely to develop asthma', research finds |
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11 new genetic associations for asthma-with-hay fever
Medical Xpress 23andMe has participated in the first ever genome-wide association study of the combined asthma-with-hay fever phenotype. Led by researchers at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, the study identified 11 independent genetic markers … |
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Salmonella infection mitigates asthma
Medical Xpress Researchers from Germany have identified the mechanism by which Salmonella infections can reduce the incidence of asthma in mice. The research, which appears ahead of print in the journal Infection and Immunity, opens up new avenues of research that … |
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Obese children more susceptible to asthma from air pollution
Medical Xpress Rates of childhood obesity and asthma have both increased dramatically in the past 30 years. The percentage of American children who are obese has increased from 7% in 1980 to 20% in 2008. Childhood asthma is up from 4% in 1980 to 10% in 2009. |
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