Interasma Global Asthma Association

All posts by Juan Carlos Ivancevich

RORγt inhibitors block both IL-17 and IL-22 conferring a potential advantage over anti-IL-17 alone to treat severe asthma

Research – Open Access David Lamb, Dorothy De Sousa, Karsten Quast, Katrin Fundel-Clemens, Jonas S. Erjefält, Caroline Sandén, Hans Jürgen Hoffmann, Marc Kästle, Ramona Schmid, Kevin Menden & Denis Delic  Respiratory Research volume 22, Article number: 158 (2021)  Abstract Background RORγt is a transcription factor that…

European Respiratory Society clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5–16 years

Erol A. Gaillard, Claudia E. Kuehni, Steve Turner, Myrofora Goutaki, Karl A. Holden, Carmen C.M. de Jong, Christiane Lex, David K.H. Lo, Jane S. Lucas, Fabio Midulla, Rebeca Mozun, Giorgio Piacentini, David Rigau, Bart Rottier, Mike Thomas, Thomy Tonia, Jakob Usemann, Ozge Yilmaz, Angela Zacharasiewicz, Alexander Moeller European Respiratory Journal 2021; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04173-2020 Abstract Diagnosing asthma in children represents an important clinical challenge. There is no single gold standard test to confirm…

Prevalence of overuse of short-acting beta-2 agonists (SABA) and associated factors among patients with asthma in Germany

Respiratory Research volume 22, Article number: 108 (2021)  Research – Open Access Heinrich Worth, Carl-Peter Criée, Claus F. Vogelmeier, Peter Kardos, Eva-Maria Becker, Karel Kostev, Ingo Mokros & Andrea Schneider  Background Overuse of short-acting beta-2 agonists (SABA), which do not treat the underlying…