In older children, documentation of variable airflow obstruction before giving a diagnosis of asthma is important, to avoid overdiagnosis. Prophylactic therapy on a long term basis with inhaled steroids in pre-school children does not reduce the likelihood of progression to asthma in mid-childhood, ...
Asthma is a chronic disease that has a significant impact on quality of life and is particularly important in children and adolescents, in part due to the
Childhood Asthma Diagnosis Your child’s asthma symptoms may be gone by the time you get to the doctor’s office. You have an important role in helping your doctor understand what’s going on. A diagnosis will include: What asthma drugs can children take?
A team of researchers has reassessed the clinical diagnosis of asthma in children born with HIV and found that asthma seems to be overdiagnosed in these patients. Instead, the diagnosis appears to be a new early chronic obstructive lung disease that might increase the risk for lung complications ...
Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood [1] and is characterized by the presence of reversible airflow obstruction and airways inflammation in the setting of compatible clinical symptoms [2–4]. In older children and adults, diagnosis centers around identifying asthma symptoms and con...
Differential diagnosis of asthma in children Fewer aspects of pediatric medicine give greater credence to the clich茅 that children are not simply small adults than a consideration of the problem of the differential diagnosis of the wheezing and/or coughing infant or young child. I... RB Moss 被...
Asthma in exercising children exposed to ozone: a cohort study. 265 children reported a new diagnosis of asthma during follow-up. We assessed risk of asthma in children playing team sports at study entry in six ... McConnell,Rob,Berhane,... - 《Lancet》...
In some countries in Latin America, the prevalence of asthma is among the highest in the world. Asthma admissions are very common in children, leading to high costs for the health systems of those countries. Unfortunately, Latin America has limited resources to pay for appropriate treatment. The...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Children with asthma may be at higher obesity risk later in childhood or in adolescence, according to new research published online this week. Researchers from the University of Southern California found that young children with asthma were 51 percent more likely ...
on children who have been diagnosed withasthma," says allergy and immunology fellow Sairaman Nagarajan, MD, lead author of the study. "Of the more than 57,000 children whose information we examined, more than 20 percent of those who had a family history of cancer had an asthma diagnosis."...