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Research
Many studies have evaluated associations between asthma emergency department (ED) visits, hospital admissions (HAs), and ambient ozone (O3) across the US, but not in Texas. We investigated the relationship betwee...
Asthma Research and Practice 2017 3:6
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research
Prior evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency may increase the risk of asthma and atopy and impair pulmonary function in children.
Asthma Research and Practice 2017 3:5
Published on: 2 June 2017
Review
Asthma is reported as one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood, impairing the quality of life of patients and their families and incurring high costs to the healthcare system and society. Despite t...
Asthma Research and Practice 2017 3:4
Published on: 11 May 2017
Short report
Little is known about asthma in the elderly as most studies of this condition have not included this patient group. It is unclear whether leukotriene antagonists benefit older asthmatics. We studied the effect...
Asthma Research and Practice 2017 3:3
Published on: 17 April 2017
Research
Asthma, a chronic respiratory disease affecting over 18.7 million American adults, has marked disparities by gender, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Our goal was to identify gender-specific demographi...
Asthma Research and Practice 2017 3:2
Published on: 24 January 2017
Review
In recent decades, both asthma prevalence and incidence have been increasing worldwide, not only due to the genetic background, but mainly because of the effect of a wide number of environmental and lifestyle ...
Asthma Research and Practice 2017 3:1
Published on: 6 January 2017
Review
Food allergic individuals are exposed to unnecessary dietary restrictions due to precautionary food allergy labelling (PFAL). Two forms of PFAL exist: type I identifies the possible presence of allergenic cont...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:13
Published on: 1 November 2016
Position article and guidelines
Evidence that enables us to identify, assess, and access the small airways in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has led INTERASMA (Global Asthma Association) and WAO to take a position on...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:12
Published on: 28 October 2016
Review
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, usually characterized by chronic airway inflammation and a variable course associated with various underlying mechanisms that can differ between individuals. Patients with as...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:11
Published on: 12 August 2016
Review
Asthma is still a major public health problem in most countries; new strategies to better control this disease are necessary. Such strategies must include predisposing factors. One of these factors is smoking ...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:10
Published on: 20 June 2016
Review
Molecular based in vitro technologies greatly changed the diagnostic approaches in allergy. At present, sensitization profiles can be dissected according to IgE subsets, which are specific for genuine or cross...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:9
Published on: 2 June 2016
Research
Asthma management in Australia is suboptimal. The “Guidelines for provision of a Pharmacist Only medicine: short acting beta agonists” (SABA guidelines) and a novel West Australian “Asthma Action Plan card” (AAP ...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:8
Published on: 4 May 2016
Review
Child maltreatment is a common problem with known adverse consequences, yet its contributions to the development and course of pediatric asthma are only poorly understood.
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:7
Published on: 11 April 2016
Research
Asthma is a disease encompassing a variety of contributing factors. Phenotyping of asthma based on the profile of accumulated granulocytes in the airways has been performed to explore the mediators involved in...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:6
Published on: 17 March 2016
Review
In the present review, we focus on evidence-based data for the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRA), long-acting beta2-agonits (LABA) and oral corticosteroids (OCS), wit...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:5
Published on: 2 March 2016
Research
Fluticasone furoate (FF)/vilanterol (VI) is a once-daily inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long-acting beta2 agonist (LABA) combination. FF/VI, 92/22mcg and 184/22mcg, are approved in Europe as maintenance therapy in ...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:4
Published on: 8 February 2016
Short report
Asthma affects a significant proportion of elderly patients, but unfortunately, it is responsible for a high asthma-related morbidity and mortality in this population. This may be related not only to the devel...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:3
Published on: 2 February 2016
Research
In asthma, exacerbations and poor disease control are linked to airway allergic inflammation. Serum periostin has been proposed as a systemic biomarker of eosinophilic inflammation. This pilot study aims at ev...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:1
Published on: 4 January 2016
Review
Historically, asthma has been envisioned as a disease of younger ages. This has led to the assumption that respiratory symptoms suggestive of asthma occurring in older ages are to be attributed to conditions o...
Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:2
Published on: 4 January 2016
Review
Globally, an estimated 300 million people have asthma, presenting a considerable and increasing burden of disease for healthcare systems, families, and patients themselves. Despite two decades of guidelines, a...
Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:15
Published on: 24 December 2015
Review
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common life-limiting genetic disease among African Americans, affecting more than 100,000 people in the United States. Respiratory disorders in patients with sickle cell d...
Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:14
Published on: 8 December 2015
Review
According to national and international guidelines, achieving and maintaining asthma control is a major goal of disease management. In closely controlled clinical trials, good asthma control can be achieved , ...
Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:13
Published on: 1 December 2015
Review
Multiple factors interact to trigger allergic diseases, including individual genetic background and factors related to the environment such as exposure to allergens, air pollution and respiratory infections. T...
Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:10
Published on: 20 October 2015
Review
In this article, we discuss the relationship between environmental exposures within the school environment and pediatric asthma morbidity. This article will conclude by reviewing novel school based asthma educ...
Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:12
Published on: 8 October 2015
Research
Involving patients and the public in research prioritisation is important. Cochrane Airways works with authors to produce systematic reviews of evidence related to chronic airways disease. Cochrane Airways has...
Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:11
Published on: 29 September 2015
