Asthma
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Beware risk of sedatives for respiratory patients
There has not been a systematic assessment of commonly prescribed medications with potential respiratory side-effects.
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Dietitian-led weight loss program improves difficult-to-treat asthma in obese patients
Clinically important improvements seen in asthma control and quality of life over 16 weeks compared to usual care.
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Frequent visits to green spaces linked to lower use of some meds
Finnish city dwellers who often visited green spaces, such as parks and community gardens, used fewer psychotropic, antihypertensive, and asthma...
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Muscle weakness predicts poor outcomes in asthma patients
Lower muscle mass was associated with lower functional exercise capacity in adults with asthma.
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Adult-onset asthma subtypes associated with both eosinophil, neutrophil levels
Four subtypes determined by blood eosinophil and neutrophil counts were associated with asthma severity and unique patterns of features in real-...
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Obesity impacts peripheral airway reactivity, asthma
Overall, most obese individuals with and without asthma showed significant changes in peripheral airway resistance.
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Defining six asthma subtypes may promote personalized treatment
A large, retrospective cohort study defined of asthma subtypes based on steroid use, health care use, and comorbidities
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Persistent asthma linked to higher carotid plaque burden
Carotid plaque was present in half of participants without asthma but in close to 70% of participants with persistent asthma.
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Add tezepelumab to SCIT to improve cat allergy symptoms?
“Tezepelumab is currently an expensive biologic, so it remains to be seen whether patients and payors will be willing to pay for this add-on...
Conference Coverage
Asthma ED visits predict failed housing inspections
Asthma ED visits increased more than 1 year before a failed HUD inspection but were not elevated at housing units that passed inspection.
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Climate change magnifies health effects of wildfire smoke in care deserts
About 5.5 million Americans live in the 488 counties where drive times to pulmonologists are an hour or more.