Air pollution has been documented to contribute to severe respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). Although these diseases demonstrate a shift in t...
Onset and duration of action and ease of use were classified higher as important parameters to increase patients’ compliance, according to physicians’ perspectives reported in a study pu...
atient preference data for maintenance inhaler attributes can be used to identify a preference order of inhalers in different treatment classes, according to a study published in Respiratory...
Eosinophilia predicted small airway obstruction in patients with low sensitization Eosinophilia was found to be a marker of airway obstruction irrespective of degree of airway sensitization...
Asthma affects nearly 6 million children in the United States, with annual school absences of 13.8 million days and health expenses of $800 per year per family. With limited access to health...
People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) experienced changes in health behaviors and access to MS care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The USA has the highest recognized number of Covid19 infecti...
A study has found that about half of children diagnosed with severe asthma initially no longer had it after 3 years, and asthma severity decreased equally in both boys and girls over time. ...
A study has found that about half of children diagnosed with severe asthma initially no longer had it after 3 years, and asthma severity decreased equally in both boys and girls over time. ...
A study has found that about half of children diagnosed with severe asthma initially no longer had it after 3 years, and asthma severity decreased equally in both boys and girls over time. ...
New research was presented at ATS 2020 Virtual, the online annual American Thoracic Society International Conference, from August 5-10. The features below highlight some of the studies prese...
The incidents of childhood asthma are decreasing in some parts of North America and Europe, and the use of antibiotics has been linked to the increased risk of asthma. The objective of this ...
Risk increases as more cigarettes are smoked According to the Office of Minority Health of the Health and Human Services Administration, African Americans are 50% more likely to have a stro...
Research suggests that urban minority children of low socioeconomic status endure disproportionately high asthma morbidity. Although traffic proximity has been associated with adverse respi...
The IL1RL1 (ST2) gene locus is robustly associated with asthma; however, the contribution of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in this locus to specific asthma subtypes and the function...
Rosin (Colophony) is a natural resin derived from species of the pine family Pinaceae. It has wide industrial applications including printing inks, photocopying paper, adhesives and varnishe...
Resident-sensitive quality measures (RSQMs) are quality measures that are likely performed by an individual resident and are important to care quality for a given illness of interest. This s...
Incorporating expert knowledge at the time machine learning models are trained holds promise for producing models that are easier to interpret. The main objectives of this study were to use ...
Down syndrome (DS), a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by triplication of chromosome 21, is characterized by intellectual disability. In DS, defective neurogenesis causes an overall reduct...
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) affects most infants early in life and is associated with increased asthma risk. The specific mechanism remains unknown.To Investigate the role of uric acid...
Allergic diseases often occur in combination (multimorbidity). Human blood transcriptome studies have not addressed multimorbidity. Large-scale gene expression data were combined to retrieve...
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