Jasper V. Been,1,2,3,* Marlies J. Lugtenberg,1 Eline Smets,1 Constant P. van Schayck,2,3 Boris W. Kramer,1,4,5Monique Mommers,2 and Aziz Sheikh2,3,6 Abstract Background: Accumulating evidence implicates early life factors in the aetiology of non-communicable diseases, including asthma/wheezing disorders. We undertook…

  BMJ Open 2014;4:e003827 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003827 Smita Dick1, Emma Doust2, Hilary Cowie2, Jon G Ayres3, Steve Turner1 +Author Affiliations: 1Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, 2Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK, 3Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK…

Research indicates that the more colds and other viral infections a woman has during pregnancy, the more likely her child is to have asthma. The more colds and other viral infections a woman…

Background: Prediction of subsequent school-age asthma during the preschool years has proven challenging. Objective To confirm in a post hoc analysis the predictive ability of the modified Asthma Predictive Index (mAPI)…

Abstract: Background: In clinical trials the use of inhaled corticosteroids is associated with an increased risk of pneumonia in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but whether the same is true…

Abstract – Background: Many children stand to benefit from being asthma-free for life with primary (i.e., prenatally started) prevention addressing one environmental exposure in a unifaceted (UF) approach or at least…

Abstract – Background: Oral corticosteroid prescriptions are often used in clinical studies as an indicator of asthma exacerbations. However, there is rarely the ability to link a prescription to its associated…

Summary: Diet changes can partly explain the high burden of asthma in industrialised nations. Findings from experimental studies have stimulated many observational studies of the association between vitamins (A, C, D,…