Asthma
Jul 05, 2022
Adverse drug events due to anti-asthmatic medications have been substantially rising during the past two decades among younger children. Studies have shown that asthma medication adherence is b...
Jun 08, 2022
Initial and consistent fractured exhaled nitric oxide measurements can help identify asthma-related morbidity in children living in urban areas. Asthma affects every age group, gender, ra...
May 23, 2022
The role of copy number variants (CNVs) in susceptibility to asthma is not well understood. This is, in part, due to the difficulty of accurately measuring CNVs in large enough sample sizes to detect ...
May 16, 2022
Although the risk calculator of the National Clinical Database (RC-NCD) has been widely used to predict the occurrence of mortality and major morbidity in Japan, it has not been demonstrated whether a...
Mar 14, 2022
The respiratory tract is home to a diverse microbial community whose influence on local and systemic immune responses is only beginning to be appreciated. Increasing reports have linked changes in thi...
Feb 23, 2022
“Childhood food allergy (FA) is steadily increasing globally and represents a serious public health problem for the 3% to 8% children affected,” explains Antonella Muraro, MD, PhD. “FA is also t...
Feb 21, 2022
It has recently emerged that drugs such as the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin (Rapa) may play a key role in the treatment of airway inflammation associated with lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive pu...
Feb 14, 2022
Studies examining associations of early-life cat and dog ownership with childhood asthma have reported inconsistent results. Several factors could explain these inconsistencies, including type of pet,...
Feb 01, 2022
“Diet is a crucial environmental factor in early life that impacts the development of allergic diseases,” explains Nianhong Yang, MD. However, research regarding the relationship between diet dive...
Jan 31, 2022
The seafood industry is the largest industry in Greenland. Work-related diseases and accidents appear to constitute health risks in this sector. The aim was to describe the prevalence of work-related ...
Jan 24, 2022
The potential influence of asthma control in early life on long-term outcomes in childhood remains largely unknown.To examine whether asthma control trajectories in the 2 years post-diagnosis in presc...
Jan 17, 2022
To examine associations between neighborhood characteristics and asthma prevalence and severity among low-income children in a large nationally representative sample.Data source: 2018 National Survey ...
Jan 03, 2022
There is considerable research interest in the role of helminth infections in the development of allergic diseases. However, findings from previous studies are mixed. Existing systematic reviews of th...
Jan 03, 2022
Leukotriene (LT) C synthase (LTC4S) catalyzes the conversion from LTA to LTC which is a proinflammatory lipid mediator in asthma and other inflammatory diseases. LTC is metabolized to LTD and LTE, all...
Dec 20, 2021
Mepolizumab has been approved as a treatment option for severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA) patients in our country. We aimed to evaluate the clinical and functional efficacy of mepolizumab in this group...
Nov 29, 2021
A wireless wearable sensor on a paper substrate was used to continuously monitor respiratory behavior that can extract and deliver clinically relevant respiratory parameters to a smartphone. Intended ...
Nov 08, 2021
Developing functional insight into the causal molecular drivers of immunological disease is a critical challenge in genomic medicine. Here, we systematically apply Mendelian randomization (MR), geneti...
Oct 28, 2021
We’ve long known that childhood food allergy and food allergen sensitization are associated with asthma and rhinitis in childhood. However, the associations between childhood food allergy/food aller...
Oct 25, 2021
Asthma is among the most common medical conditions affecting children and young people, with adolescence a recognised period of increased risk, overrepresented in analyses examining recent increasing ...
Oct 18, 2021
Asthma animal models provide valuable information about the pathogenesis and the treatment of asthma. An ovalbumin (OVA)/complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA)-sensitized model was developed to induce neutr...
