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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis in the adult population within the commonwealth of independent states: rationale and design of the CORE study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine BMC series – open, inclusive and trusted  17:131, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-017-0471-x Open Peer Review reports Yuriy Feshchenko, Liudmila Iashyna, Damilya Nugmanova, Olga Gyrina, Marina Polyanskaya, Alexander Markov, Maryna Moibenko,…

Risks associated with managing asthma without a preventer: urgent healthcare, poor asthma control and over-the-counter reliever use in a cross-sectional population survey

BMJ Open Respiratory medicine-Research BMJ Open 2017;7:e016688. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016688 Helen K Reddel1, ,Rosario D Ampon1, ,Susan M Sawyer2,3,4, ,Matthew J Peters5 Abstract Objectives Overuse of asthma relievers, particularly without anti-inflammatory preventers, increases asthma risks.…

Raw Cow’s Milk Prevents the Development of Airway Inflammation in a Murine House Dust Mite-Induced Asthma Model

Front Immunol. 2017; 8: 1045. doi:  10.3389/fimmu.2017.01045 PMCID: PMC5581320 Suzanne Abbring,1,† Kim A. T. Verheijden,1,† Mara A. P. Diks,1 Athea Leusink-Muis,1 Gert Hols,2 Ton Baars,3 Johan Garssen,1,2 and Betty C. A. M. van Esch1,2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ►…

Long-term outcomes of bronchial thermoplasty in subjects with severe asthma: a comparison of 3-year follow-up results from two prospective multicentre studies

Geoffrey Chupp, Michel Laviolette, Lauren Cohn, Charlene McEvoy, Sandeep Bansal, Adrian Shifren, Sumita Khatri, G. Mark Grubb, Edmund McMullen, Racho Strauven, Joel N. Kline European Respiratory Journal 2017 50: 1700017; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00017-2017   Abstract Bronchial thermoplasty is an endoscopic therapy for severe asthma. The previously reported, randomised sham-controlled AIR2 (Asthma Intervention Research 2) trial showed a…

Anti-Interleukin 5 (IL-5) and IL-5Ra Biological Drugs: Efficacy, Safety, and Future Perspectives in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma

REVIEW ARTICLE Front. Med., 31 August 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2017.00135 Diego Bagnasco1, Matteo Ferrando1, Gilda Varricchi2, Francesca Puggioni3, Giovanni Passalacqua1 and Giorgio Walter Canonica1,3* 1Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, DIMI Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, IRCCS AOU…