Controlling for smoking status, no significant findings for lung function, quality of life or asthma symptoms were found. At 3-month follow-up, participants in the intervention condition reported significantly better subjective control of their asthma (as defined by the asthma control test): odds ...
Obesity is the most common asthma co-morbidity; it has been associated with increased risk for asthma exacerbations, worse respiratory symptoms and poor control. The exact mechanisms remain elusive and are probably multifactorial, stemming from mechanical alterations of the airways and lung parenchyma, ...
We should not, however, forget the impact of the placebo effect in severe asthma RCTs, including that seen on patient-reported outcomes, and the benefit patients receive from the administration of a structured asthma management regimen.40It is interesting to note that this effect may not be so...
1.An indication of a disorder or disease, especially a subjective one such as pain, nausea, or weakness. 2.A characteristic sign or indication of the existence of something else:drought and erratic rainfall as symptoms of climate change. ...
In phase 1, a total of 3236 (11·9% [95% CI 11·5–12·3]) reported wheeze in the past 12 months, and 644 (19·9%) of 3236 had a formal clinical diagnosis of asthma. The prevalence of adolescents with asthma symptoms ranged from 23·8% in Durban, South Africa to 4·2% ...
In a small open-label pilot study severe steroid-dependent asthma patients who were not immunodeficient and did not have undue susceptibility to infection were treated with iv γ-globulin with a very large dosage protocol of 2000 mg/kg monthly. These patients’ asthms symptoms improved, their ...
Dietary antioxidants and asthma in adults: population-based case-control study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2001;164(10):1823–8. Article CAS Google Scholar Tsai HJ, Tsai AC . The association of diet with respiratory symptoms and asthma in schoolchildren in Taipei, Taiwan. J Asthma 2007;44...
allergic rhinitis and/or bronchial asthma. In children the first symptoms of AD usually precede the airway symptoms. This phenomenon is often called the atopic march. Epidemiological studies suggest a relationship between the severity of AD, and the degree of atopic sensitization, and bronchial ...
ERS recommends against diagnosing asthma in children aged 5–16 years based on clinical history alone or following a single abnormal objective test. ERS recommends against using an improvement in symptoms after a trial of preventer medication alone to diagnose asthma in children aged 5–16 years. ...
Epigenetics of asthma and allergic disease is a field that has expanded greatly in the last decade. Previously thought only in terms of cell differentiation, it is now evident the epigenetics regulate many processes. With T cell activation, commitment toward an allergic phenotype is tightly regulated...