Asthma/epidemiology
Asthma: epidemiology of disease control in Latin America – short review
... guidelines, asthma is still poorly controlled, especially in Latin ...on asthma control or epidemiology with high levels of evidence have been selected for analysis among those published in PubMed ...
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The state of asthma epidemiology: an overview of systematic reviews and their quality
... Second, we identified several systematic reviews on the effects of specific infections other than RSV infec- tion which is the only infection discussed in the previous overview [3]. A total of four systematic reviews on ...
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The epidemiology, healthcare and societal burden and costs of asthma in the UK and its member nations: analyses of standalone and linked national databases
... of asthma as the main problem of the patient had been taken into ...with asthma and comorbidities which might have re- sulted in higher health and societal care utilisation, add- itional costs of care for ...
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Epidemiology of asthma in selected Pacific countries : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
... developing asthma (Larsson 1 995; de Marco et ...increase asthma incidence or duration such as exposure to outdoors and outdoor allergens and exercise (GINA 2005) as well as more health problems in general ...
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Epidemiology of Occupational Asthma in Tunisia: Results of a First National Study
... occupational asthma could have been rejected due to administrative reasons such as: exceeding the deadline of cost managementde- fined legally as the delay which separates the end of exposure and the first ...
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Conventional epidemiology underestimates the incidence of asthma and wheeze-a longitudinal population-based study among teenagers
... about asthma, rhinitis, eczema, and allergic sensitization among schoolchildren in Northern ...of asthma and wheeze at recruitment in 1996 was similar among the study population and those who had dropped ...
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Epidemiology of asthma and associated factors in an urban Pakistani population: adult asthma study-Karachi
... self-reported asthma was diagnosed based on asthma symptoms, previous diagnosis of asthma or medication use ...identified asthma based on self-reported physician diagnosed asthma ...
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Epidemiology of Childhood Asthma in Fayoum City (District) Egypt
... of asthma over the last two decades. Few studies evaluated asthma prevalence in ...bronchial asthma among school children aged 6- 12 years old in Fayoum city (distrect) and identification of the risk ...
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BRONCHIAL ASTHMA: AN UNMET DISEASE
... Epidemiology: Asthma is a common medical condition that affects 300 million people worldwide and 25 million people in United States with that number expected to ...that asthma usually affects 5-16% ...
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A review of adult asthma and the effectiveness of education programs in reducing symptoms
... recommends asthma self-management education to be essential in providing patients with the skills necessary to control asthma and improve out- ...the epidemiology of asthma, the different ...
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Trends in Pediatric Asthma Hospitalization Rates: Regional and Socioeconomic Differences
... the epidemiology of pediat- ric asthma hospitalizations, we conducted longitudi- nal studies in northern New England and New York state to answer the following three primary ques- tions: 1) Are the national ...
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Three Courses of Tianjiu Therapy in Sanfu Days for Chronic Asthma: A Clinic Efficacy Observation Trail
... chronic asthma patients who received 1 course treatment, 2 courses treatment and 3 courses treatment of Tianjiu Therapy in Sanfu ...for asthma in 91 chronic asthma ...91 asthma par- ticipants ...
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Physician perspectives on the burden and management of asthma in six countries: The Global Asthma Physician Survey (GAPS)
... poor asthma outcomes rather than the level of asthma control [11]) reflecting the advice given in German national guidelines [27, ...the Asthma Control Test [ACT]) was consistently low, particularly ...
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Clinical profile of predefined asthma phenotypes in a large cohort of UK primary care patients (Clinical Practice Research Datalink)
... benign asthma, 61 (33%) had early-onset atopic asthma and 27 (15%) had obese non-eosinophilic ...dominant asthma phenotype has a lower symptom expression, but active eosinophilic ...of asthma ...
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The all age asthma cohort (ALLIANCE) - from early beginnings to chronic disease: a longitudinal cohort study
... So far, all involved study participants for the paediatric arm were recruited in participating hospital centres and private practices of registered paediatricians in the re- gions of Luebeck, Hannover, Munich, and for ...
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Development process and cognitive testing of CARATkids - Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for children
... Results: Four questionnaires to assess asthma and none to assess rhinitis control in children were identified. The multidisciplinary group produced a questionnaire version for children with 17 questions with ...
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Study of pattern of drug treatment in patients with exacerbations of bronchial asthma in an emergency ward of a teaching hospital: A prospective, cross sectional study
... with asthma were allergic rhinitis 46% followed by gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD ...bronchial asthma are considered as one airway and one ...have asthma also have coexisting allergic ...
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Correlation of Induced Sputum Eosinophil and Absolute Eosinophil Count in assessing the Clinical Severity of Bronchial Asthma
... Eosinophils have characteristic granules and granular proteins. The granule has crystalloid core and matrix. The four cytotoxic proteins are present in the granules. The genes of these proteins are cloned. The cDNA for ...
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ASTHMA SEVERITY & CONTROL AMONG PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH & WITHOUT CO-MORBID RHINITIS Rashid Ahmed Khan*, Muhammad Iqbal, Nadeem Memon, Hamid Nawaz Ali Memon, Syed Jahangir, Maryam Iqbal, Muhammad Muneeb and Aatir H. RajputDOWNLOAD/VIEW
... This retrospective, comparative analysis was conducted upon a total of 377 asthmatic patients, presenting at the medical out-patient department with and without co-morbid rhinitis. The data was collected using a ...
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Participation factors for asthma education programs - a cross sectional survey
... adult asthma patients regarding asthma education ...in asthma education before the study were con- sidered as “trained” patients, whereas patients that have not received asthma education prior ...
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