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Researchers discover new pathway that may trigger asthma
Medical Xpress Asthma is an enormous public health problem that continues to grow larger, in part because scientists don't fully understand how it is caused. Existing therapies don't cure the disease and often don't even significantly alleviate the symptoms. Now … Scientists identify biological pathway that could explain why asthma therapies fail |
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Helping asthma patients breathe easier
Medical Xpress The possibility of a future without asthma is what really inspires renowned allergist Harissios Vliagoftis. In his role as the newly appointed GSK-CIHR Chair in Airway Inflammation, Vliagoftis aims to help make this possibility a reality. Thanks to a … |
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Bronchial thermoplasty improves asthma regardless of socioeconomic status
Medical Xpress Among people with asthma, lower socioeconomic status, education level, and ethnic minority status clearly have undesirable effects on their care and outcomes. Patients with severe disease who attend county (public) hospitals in the United States tend … |
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Women with unhealthy BMIs who smoke and drink at two-fold higher risk of asthma
Medical Xpress Asthma is a respiratory condition where spasms in the air pathways of the lungs cause difficulty breathing; usually triggered by an allergy or sensitivity in the environment. Asthma is a global health priority due to the extent and duration of … |
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Oily fish eaten during pregnancy may reduce risk of asthma in offspring
Medical Xpress However, at age two and half years, children whose mothers ate salmon while pregnant were less likely to have asthma. These latest results are one example of Professor Calder's ground-breaking research into specific relationships between nutrition and … |
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Study reveals new way lungs respond in asthma attacks
Medical Xpress Obstruction of the lumen of a bronchiole by mucoid exudate, goblet cell metaplasia, and epithelial basement membrane thickening in a person with asthma. Credit: Yale Rosen/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0. Scientists have discovered a new way in which the lungs … |
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Asthma is associated with polycystic ovary syndrome and excess weight
Medical Xpress Among reproductive-age women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as well as overweight and obesity are independently linked with asthma, new preliminary research from Australia suggests. The results will be presented in a poster Saturday, April 2, … |
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If you don't have asthma, maybe it's because Mom experienced a sunny second trimester, health economist finds
Medical Xpress "Our health system spends billions and billions treating asthma, and there's lots and lots of opportunity costs," said David Slusky, assistant professor of economics. "Pain and suffering, loss of productivity and premature death—asthma has all of those.". |
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Recent asthma may be linked with abdominal aneurysm rupture
Medical Xpress Patients aged 50 and older with recent asthma activity were significantly more likely than non-asthmatics to experience abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture and sudden death, according to new research published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular … Asthma May Raise Risk for Abdominal Aneurysm Asthma Tied to Presence and Rupture of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, Potentially Linked by Inflammation |
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Study identifies new target for severe asthma, chronic inflammatory diseases
Medical Xpress Chronic inflammation is commonly found in asthma, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and viral infections, and it's characterized by constant activation of platelets with unhealed tissue damage. Scientists who have studied the Dkk-1 protein were aware that … |
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