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ALTHOUGH THE INCREASE IN asthma morbidity and mortality has several causes, urban air pollution may have a prominent role. Air pollutants for which there is evidence of possible adverse respiratory [...]

FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA, AND IMMUNOLOGY SAN FRANCISCO -- Using inhaled budesonide daily for chronic asthma for a mean of 16 years from [...]

To assess whether a combination of inhaled beclomethasone plus albuterol could be used as a rescue medication regimen to reduce the frequency of exacerbations, whether the patient also used daily [...]

In 2008, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices expanded 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination recommendations to include adults with asthma. The recommendation was made because this population has a demonstrated increased [...]

Children with severe asthma may carry a 30-fold greater risk of developing adult chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than children without asthma, a new study from the Royal Children's Hospital [...]

KEYSTONE, COLO. -- Low vitamin D levels in adults with asthma are associated with impaired lung function, increased airway hyperresponsiveness, and diminished in vitro response to glucocorticoids, according to a [...]

MONTREAL -- Primary care patients with asthma face a significantly increased risk of developing depression, compared with the nonasthmatic population, according to the findings of a large, longitudinal study. Furthermore, [...]

It is apparent that abnormalities in asthma can be defined experimentally to some extent. For example, bronchial hyperactivity in patients with asthma and the inflammatory process in the bronchi in [...]

What happenbs to the airways at night? Waking at night struggling for breath, wheezing, and coughing can be a terrifying experience. To have doctors write off these scaring episodes as [...]

SAN DIEGO -- About one-third of patients referred to an asthma specialty clinic who were believed to have difficult to control asthma actually had vocal cord dysfunction, results from a [...]

Researchers have identified several factors--including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and use of inhaled corticosteroids--that independently predict risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients with asthma. Teodorescu and colleagues, writing [...]

You don't normally associate asthma with suicide. But asthma-treatment drugs like Singulair have been identified by the FDA for reported cases of 'agitation, aggression, anxiousness, dream abnormalities and hallucinations, depression, [...]

We report two episodes of cardiorespiratory arrest immediately after measurement of peak expiratory flow in two young asthmatic subjects during an attack of asthma. Various mechanisms could be involved, particularly [...]

ORLANDO -- Adult-onset asthma was linked to an almost twofold increased rate of coronary heart disease or stroke in women in a study with more than 15,000 people. The mechanism [...]

KEYSTONE, COLO. -- Physicians treating patients with asthma and other airway symptoms should not rely solely on gastroenterologists' interpretations of pH probe tests, because they might miss laryngeal-pharyngeal reflux that [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Pre-teens and adolescents with asthma who were also depressed or anxious had asthma symptoms on significantly more days and were more prone to individual symptoms, according to [...]

Having asthma, hay fever, or another allergic condition may reduce the risk of developing one fatal form of brain cancer, suggests a study from Ohio State University, Columbus. New evidence [...]

A daily dose of the leukotriene-receptor antagonist montelukast resulted in fewer viral-induced exacerbations and less use of inhaled steroids in children with intermittent asthma, according to results of a new [...]

TORONTO -- The prescription of inhaled asthma medications is becoming more complicated and requires physicians to understand not only the drug they are prescribing, but also its formulation and the [...]

One-third of adult patients with asthma have gastroesophageal reflux disease, but many do not have typical reflux symptoms or acidic reflux, reported Toni O. Kiljander, M.D., and Jukka O. Laitinen, [...]

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are usually seen as distinct conditions with different clinical courses, but a recent study finds that asthmatics have a significantly higher risk for [...]

Patients with asthma are at high risk for complications of upper respiratory infections, including influenza. This risk can be significantly reduced through influenza vaccination, which the Centers for Disease Control [...]

Early diagnosis and treatment may determine whether asthma patients have mild, moderate, or severe allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), a relatively common hypersensitivity disorder in this population, recent study findings suggest. [...]

* VCD is no longer considered rare. It is recognized as both a mimic of asthma and a complicating condition in patients who have asthma. In one study, 10% of [...]

A large study to investigate whether salmeterol xinafoate (Serevent) might cause rare serious asthma-related adverse events was halted by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). In an interim analysis, researchers found a small but [...]

DENVER -- Corticosteroids can safely be given to asthmatics before surgery to improve lung function and reduce pulmonary complications, Dr. Fanny W. Su said at the annual meeting of the [...]

A recent study confirms a suspected link between thunderstorms and asthma attacks by finding a significant increase in visits to the ED for asthma on days during which there were [...]

Golan Y, Onn A, Villa Y, et al. Asthma in adventure travelers: a prospective study evaluating the occurrence and risk factors for acute exacerbations. Arch Intern Med 2002;162:2421-6 This Israeli [...]

* Sousa AR, Parikh A, Scadding G, et al. Leukotriene-receptor expression an nasal mucasal inflammatory cells in aspirin-sensitive rhinosinusitis, N Engl J Med 2002;347:1493-9 Patients with aspirin sensitivity, asthma, and [...]

NEW YORK -- Emergency department care of acute asthma patients has improved significantly since 1997, when the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program published its guidelines. Those recommendations stated that [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Hormone replacement therapy appears to worsen asthma, especially in women who had asthma before menopause. The causal link between estrogen use and exacerbation of asthma is preliminary, but [...]

American Lung Association Asthma Clinical Research Centers. N Engl J Med. 2001;345: 1529-1536. Previous studies have suggested an exacerbation of asthma after influenza vaccination. Fewer than 10% of patients with [...]

Administration of inactivated influenza vaccine did not exacerbate asthma in a large study of adults and children. In 1,952 people involved in the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study, the exacerbation [...]

Nejtek VA, Brown ES, Khan DA, et al, University of Texas Southwestern Medical center, Dallas. Prevalence of mood disorders and relationship to asthma severity in patients at an inner-city asthma [...]