Poor asthma control is often linked to treatment nonadherence and the presence of comorbidities such as respiratory infections and congestive heart failure,1 as well as psychological disorders.2 In fact, patients with asthma…
Research article – Open Access – Open Peer Review Caroline Carney and Michaela Benzeval BMC Public Health 2019 19:690 Open Peer Review reports Abstract Background Lung function is lower in people with disadvantaged socio-economic position (SEP) and is…
Jonathan Coquet, Chris Tibbitt and Julian Stark. Photo: John Sennett Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have studied which genes are expressed in overactive immune cells in mice with asthma-like inflammation of…
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Research – Open Access Nour Baïz, Jocelyne Just, Julie Chastang, Anne Forhan, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, Anne-Marie Magnier, Isabella Annesi-Maesano and the EDEN Mother-Child Cohort Study Group Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2019 15:40 Abstract Background Consumption of certain foods during pregnancy has been shown…
One in 5 adults diagnosed with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or both asthma and COPD in a primary care setting have asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) based on the criteria…
The Adolescent Asthma Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (AASEQ) has demonstrated validity and reliability in assessing adolescent asthma management, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal. This study included 243 adolescents…
Research Open Access Jing Guo, Wenjing Zhu, Huimin Wang, Patrick G. Holt, Guicheng Zhang and Chuanhe Liu Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2019 15:38 Abstract Background Nearly all the investigations into the risk factors for wheezing and asthma were conducted in developed countries with a high…
Understanding lung cells and their signals could help towards finding new asthma drug targets News article by the Communications Team17 Jun 2019 An airway wall biopsy from a patient with…
Respiratory Research Research – Open Access Matthieu Veil-Picard†, Thibaud Soumagne†, Rechana Vongthilath, Isabella Annesi Maesano, Alicia Guillien, Lucie Laurent, Pascal Andujar, Nicolas Roche, Stephane Jouneau, Benoit Cypriani, Jean-Jacques Laplante, Bruno Degano and Jean-Charles Dalphin †Contributed equally Respiratory Research 2019 20:124 Abstract Allergic mechanisms related to environmental and occupational exposure have been suggested to contribute to the development of chronic obstructive…
Smoking and tobacco – Research BMJ Open Kentaro Watai, Kiyoshi Sekiya, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yuma Fukutomi, Masami Taniguchi. Abstract Objective In daily clinical practice, smokers with asthma and with intermittent disease severity are frequently encountered. The…