Severe asthma: looking beyond the amount of medicationdoi:10.1016/S2213-2600(17)30379-XAndrewBushNationalSejalSaglaniNationalLouiseFlemingNationalSDOSLancet Respiratory MedicineBush A, Saglani S, Fleming L. Severe asthma: looking beyond the amount of medication. Lancet Respir Med 2017; 5: 844-846....
Investigators reporting hospitalization and mortality rates show persistent race and income disparities as well as increases in incidence over time,30-38 although the implications for disparities in less severe asthma, which is far more common as a disease condition, are unclear. In general, ...
Inhaled and systemic CS used to treat severe asthma were compared in a total of six clinical trials, five involving children and adolescents[14,35,36,37,38]and one involving adults only.[10]Analysis of the three studies in which multiple doses of inhaled CS were administered (at 10-30-min...
Most asthma medications are well tolerated, though, and the benefits of treatment outweigh the consequences. There may be times, however, when a side effect is severe enough that a dose adjustment or different drug entirely is called for. How Asthma Is Treated Inhaled Corticosteroids Inhaled cortic...
Adherence with asthma medication guidelines was 57% for mild persistent, 55% for moderate persistent, and 32% for severe persistent asthma (P = .001). In multivariate analysis, nonadherence was associated with severe asthma, increasing age, lower socioeconomic status, current smoking, earlier onset...
Controlled asthma was positively associated with ICS adherence and was negatively associated with the number of SABA prescriptions. The more SABA prescriptions, the higher the risk of having an uncontrolled asthma. For GPs it is important to recognize that according to the SABA use of their ...
The researchers analyzed data from 2,025 patients who used any of six FDA-approved severeasthmatreatments known as "biologics" because they containmonoclonal antibodiesfound in living organisms. "The practical takeaway here is pretty simple: Patients who aren't getting good relief from a particular ...
Fifty-two percent of the patients had severe asthma. 80% of patients accepted their illness. Only 35% knew their disease and its symptoms and 24% of these patients adhered to treatment The main causes of poor asthma control were poor socioeconomic and intellectual conditions, the presence of ...
To describe pediatric severe asthma care, complications, and outcomes to plan for future prospective studies by the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care R... L Susan,Bratton,JL Christopher,... - Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World ...
(timed alarm) on ICS adherence. The study enrolled children who presented to the emergency department for acute asthma symptoms and were diagnosed with asthma by the emergency department medical team. The diagnosis process would usually include a clinical diagnosis based on the presentation and ...