asthma exacerbations
<p>Pneumonia in young adults with asthma: impact on subsequent asthma exacerbations</p>
... bronchiectasis compared to asthma only. 8 He hypothesized that chronic airway in fl ammation or possible persistent air- way colonization could be triggers for the exacerbations. Peyrani and Ramirez suggest ...
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Correlation of Care Process Measures With Childhood Asthma Exacerbations
... Asthma exacerbations were de fi ned as paid medical claims meeting any of the following criteria: (1) a hospitalization with a primary diagnosis of asthma (International Classi fi cation of Dis- eases, ...
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Influence of HIV status on the management of acute asthma exacerbations
... Several limitations of our study should be noted. First, this was a retrospective study, and thus we were limited to the information available within the patients’ medical records. Indeed, information regarding the NIPPV ...
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Dexamethasone for Acute Asthma Exacerbations in Children: A Meta-analysis
... BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Dexamethasone has been proposed as an equivalent therapy to prednisone/prednisolone for acute asthma exacerbations in pediatric patients. Although multiple small trials exist, ...
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Quadrupling inhaled glucocorticoid dose to abort asthma exacerbations
... ing physicians may have been aware, of the person’s intervention, and this may have influ- enced the decision by participants to seek medi- cal help or by physicians to advise treatment with systemic glucocorticoids. If ...
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Quadrupling Inhaled Glucocorticoid Dose to Abort Asthma Exacerbations
... worsening asthma control resulted in a lower rate of severe exacerbations of asthma than no increase in the dose (45% ...of asthma who are taking any licensed dose of inhaled gluco- ...
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The frequency of asthma exacerbations and healthcare utilization in patients with asthma from the UK and USA
... with exacerbations not requiring admissions ...uncontrolled asthma (GINA Step 4/5 plus ≥2 exacerbations in the previous year) with eosinophil counts (≥300 cells/μl) than in patients who did ...
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Respiratory viral infections in children with asthma: do they matter and can we prevent them?
... In asthma, IFN-β and IFN-λ responses are impaired, result- ing in viral replication, cell cytotoxicity, enhanced virion shedding and increased susceptibility to common cold ...to asthma exacerbations ...
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Managing Childhood Asthma: Challenge of Preventing Exacerbations
... persistent asthma. Although currently available asthma controllers decrease the risk for acute asthma exacerbations, 30% of children taking these medicines still have ⱖ 1 episode requiring ...
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Parental Management of Childhood Asthma: An RCT
... to asthma exacerbations in children over the past 6 months at baseline and at 6 months after the completion of the ...s asthma symptoms over the past 4 weeks at baseline and at 3 and 6 months ...
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Monitoring asthma in childhood: lung function, bronchial responsiveness and inflammation
... of asthma exacerbations: asthmatic children with a baseline FEV 1 <60% predicted have a doubled risk for asthma exacerbations in the subsequent year as compared with children with an FEV 1 ...
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Sensitization to <em>Aspergillus </em>species is associated with frequent exacerbations in severe asthma
... application. Asthma control test scores were recorded at ...uncontrolled asthma (defined as ≥ 2 steroid bursts required for asthma exacerbations in the past year, ≥ 1 asthma ...
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Distribution and seasonality of rhinovirus and other respiratory viruses in a cross-section of asthmatic children in Trinidad, West Indies
... acute asthma has been seen in other studies where it was associated with 71%– 85% [5,7] of exacerbations, and was also a recognized pathogen for the lower airway ...develop asthma by the age of 6 ...
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Efficacy and safety of dupilumab for the treatment of uncontrolled asthma: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
... Severe asthma exacerbations are related to substan- tial mortality ...Reducing asthma exacerbation risk is a key target of disease ...of asthma ex- acerbations [36, ...decrease asthma ...
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Postpartum airway responsiveness and exacerbation of asthma during pregnancy – a pilot study
... Data were analyzed using SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1. Con- tinuous data were analyzed by the 2-sample t-test and binary outcomes by the Chi square test or Fisher’s exact test. Geo- metric mean was given for PD 15 along with ...
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<p>Real-World Effectiveness of Mepolizumab in Patients with Severe Asthma: An Examination of Exacerbations and Costs</p>
... with asthma with other types of insurance (or no insurance) in the USA, or to patients with asthma in other ...ning asthma exacerbations were linked to the asthma diagnosis code and it ...
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Incidence and risk factors for exacerbations of asthma during pregnancy
... on asthma exacerbations in preg- ...physician-diagnosed asthma (n = 85) from recruitment (mean ...The asthma control questionnaire score was administered at each contact, and included ...
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Treating Exacerbations of Asthma in Children: The Role of Systemic Corticosteroids
... issue. Asthma exacerbations represent a failure of overall asthma management, and children with recurrent episodes of acute asthma symptoms should be eval- uated and treated appropriately for ...
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Antibiotics in children with bronchial asthma
... moderate acute exacerbation to the asthma clinic. Exacerbation was defined as recent worsening symptoms (shortness of breath, cough, increased chest activity and wheezing) and increase in the frequency of reliever ...
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Infection-mediated asthma: etiology, mechanisms and treatment options, with focus on Chlamydia pneumoniae and macrolides
... with asthma than in the healthy controls ...to asthma pathophysiology, including species capable of inducing nitric oxide reductase, pro- duce sphingolipids or have the ability to metabolize steroid ...
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