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  1. 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...

    Authors: Louis-Philippe Boulet

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:3

    Content type: Short report

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  2. 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...

    Authors: Alida Benfante and Nicola Scichilone

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:2

    Content type: Review

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  3. 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...

    Authors: N. Scichilone, C. Crimi, A. Benfante, S. Battaglia, M. Iemmolo, M. Spatafora and N. Crimi

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:1

    Content type: Research

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  5. 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...

    Authors: Robyn T. Cohen, Elizabeth S. Klings and Robert C. Strunk

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:14

    Content type: Review

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  7. 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...

    Authors: Cintia Rodrigues Marques, Ryan Santos Costa, Gustavo Nunes de Oliveira Costa, Thiago Magalhães da Silva, Tatiane Oliveira Teixeira, Emília Maria Medeiros de Andrade, Alana A. Galvão, Valdirene Leão Carneiro and Camila Alexandrina Figueiredo

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:10

    Content type: Review

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  8. 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...

    Authors: Marissa Hauptman and Wanda Phipatanakul

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:12

    Content type: Review

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  9. 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...

    Authors: Rebecca Normansell and Emma Welsh

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:11

    Content type: Research

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  10. Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is a term that refers to inappropriate adduction of the vocal cords during inhalation and sometimes exhalation. It is a functional disorder that serves as an important mimicker of ...

    Authors: Neha M. Dunn, Rohit K. Katial and Flavia C. L. Hoyte

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:9

    Content type: Review

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  12. Despite the regular treatment with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) or ICS plus long-acting beta2-agonists, permits to control de majority of asthmatics, a significant proportion of patients does not respond to t...

    Authors: Ilaria Baiardini, Francesca Sicuro, Francesco Balbi, Giorgio Walter Canonica and Fulvio Braido

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:7

    Content type: Review

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  13. The use and role of allergen immunotherapy (AIT) in asthma is still a matter of debate, and no definite recommendation about this is made in guidelines, both for the subcutaneous and sublingual routes. This is...

    Authors: Giovanni Passalacqua, Anthi Rogkakou, Marcello Mincarini and Giorgio Walter Canonica

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:6

    Content type: Review

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  16. In the practical management of allergic rhinitis (AR), pharmacists are usually the first-line contact, also because some medications are available as over the counter. Therefore, pharmacists may represent an i...

    Authors: Carlo Lombardi, Eleonora Musicco, Francesco Rastrelli, Germano Bettoncelli, Giovanni Passalacqua and Giorgio Walter Canonica

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:4

    Content type: Research

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  17. Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) complicated by allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) are vitamin D deficient and in vitro treatment with 1,25 (OH)2 vitamin D3 of CD4+ cells from CF patients with ABPA ...

    Authors: Nikki Lynn Hue Nguyen, Joseph M. Pilewski, Juan C. Celedón, Sivanarayana Mandalapu, Megan L. Blanchard, Adrienne DeRicco, Elizabeth Hartigan, John F. Alcorn and Jay K. Kolls

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:3

    Content type: Research

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  18. Obesity is the most common asthma co-morbidity; it has been associated with increased risk for asthma exacerbations, worse respiratory symptoms and poor control. The exact mechanisms remain elusive and are pro...

    Authors: Cynthia Wilson Baffi, Daniel Efrain Winnica and Fernando Holguin

    Citation: Asthma Research and Practice 2015 1:1

    Content type: Review

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