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Use of asthma inhalers may be linked to reduced growth rate in children
YottaFire Drugs found in inhalers used by asthmatic patients impede the growth rate in children, two recent scientific reviews suggest. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are commonly used in long-term control of asthma, and are considered the most effective medicine … |
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Women with asthma could face a delay in becoming pregnant
YottaFire The study, published in the European Respiratory Journal, adds new evidence to suggest that asthma has a negative effect on fertility. Researchers from Bispebjerg University Hospital in Denmark analysed data from questionnaires completed by a cohort of … |
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Researchers identify main genes responsible for asthma attacks in children
YottaFire An international team spearheaded by researchers from the University of Copenhagen has identified the genes that put some children at particularly high risk of serious asthma attacks, including one not previously suspected of being implicated in the … |
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Fresh advance in the diagnosis and control of childhood asthma
YottaFire A researcher at the University of the Basque Country has produced a Ph.D. thesis at the pediatric pneumology section of the Hospital Universitario Donostia in San Sebastian; it deals with the link between asthma and exhaled nitric oxide. In a piece of … |
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New class of drug shows promise for treating asthma and COPD
YottaFire Scientists have developed a new drug (RPL554) that could treat obstructive airway diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in two ways at once, according to new research published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. |
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Hope of new treatment for severe asthma patients
YottaFire New research from Japan brings hope of a new treatment for asthma patients resistant to corticosteroids. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and Keio University … |
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New statistic model forecasts the effect of tobacco consumption on childhood …
YottaFire A scientific study recently published on International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research states that tobacco consumption must be decreased by 15% in Spain, particularly at home, in order to reduce the number of childhood asthma cases. The … |
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Transmitting future asthma by smoking today
YottaFire Asthma is a serious public health problem. An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from this sometimes deadly lung disease, a number expected to increase to 400 million by 2025. One well-established risk factor for asthma is having a mother … |
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Smoking + asthma + pregnant = a dangerous combination
YottaFire New research from the University of Adelaide has shown for the first time that pregnant women who smoke as well as having asthma are greatly increasing the risk of complications for themselves and their unborn children. In the first study of its kind … |
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Two tests in combination can provide better asthma diagnosis
YottaFire It was previously thought that the two test methods signalled the same type of asthma. But a new study, led by researchers at Uppsala University, Sweden, shows that the methods actually signal two different inflammatory processes. With the tests used … |
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