Sentences with phrase «studies on asthma»

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Wheezing and asthma related ER visits increase 10 - 15 % on days with high pollen counts, a study based in the country's south east found.

While the asthma trial data is just one point, the study's results could go a long way in assuring scientists that information generated through the platform (at least for certain kinds of studies) is on point.

For the past several years, doctors at the Asthma and Allergy Center have been studying the effects of capsaicin nasal spray on these symptoms, and while their results are not conclusive, they believe that further irritation leads to relief.

I also remember seeing a study that too many respiratory infections can have long term effects on the health (asthma is an obvious one, but both asthma and the infections might have another cause, so correlation does not have to mean causality here).

At the annual meeting in February of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Dr. Gideon Lack of King's College in London, England, presented information from his study on peanut allergies which was also published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Medical studies on specific food allergies and asthma abound on this site.

The studies published from 2007 and on seem to show that introducing allergenic foods between 4 - 6 months of age may actually be better sooner rather than later and may provide protection against atopic disease (eczema or asthma for example).

Comptroller DiNapoli announced the findings of «The Prevalence and Cost of Asthma in New York,» a study which revealed that New York State spent $ 532 million in the last fiscal year on asthma - related Medicaid Asthma in New York,» a study which revealed that New York State spent $ 532 million in the last fiscal year on asthma - related Medicaid asthma - related Medicaid costs.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has released a study on the rising costs of asthma in New York.

An analysis of scientific studies and other data shows asthma rates on the Lower West Side are about four times the national average and residents with asthma can be -LSB-...]

In «Prenatal and Early - life Fructose, Fructose - containing Beverages, and Mid-Childhood Asthma,» researchers report on 1,068 mother - child pairs participating in Project Viva, a longitudinal study based in Eastern Massachusetts designed to find ways to improve the health of mothers and their children.

Studies have long demonstrated links between increased asthma risk and heart disease and fine particulate matter inhaled along with air, but there has been less data on the relationship between coarse matter and lung disease.

At the same time, he adds, clinical studies on migraine headache, asthma, chronic pain and irritable bowel syndrome have demonstrated the important role of the placebo in helping relieve symptoms of these often debilitating conditions.

Former studies have already proven that smoking during pregnancy can harm the unborn child: Newborns from smoking mothers have shown low birth weights and impaired lung functions; later on in life respiratory diseases, diabetes type II, asthma or cardiovascular diseases were also more common.

Pregnant women who eat large amounts of sugar are twice as likely to have children who go on to develop allergic asthma, according to a study of 9,000 women

The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will appear online on March 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to coincide with its presentation at a meeting of the 2018 Joint Congress of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO) in Orlando, Florida.

While the growth difference was small, the finding echoes previous studies showing that children who take inhaled corticosteroids for asthma may experience a small negative impact on their growth rate.

A special receptor on cells that line the sinuses, throat and lungs evolved to protect mammals from developing a range of allergies and asthma, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The study into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be improved by the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighbourhoods.

Underscoring the relevance to humans, the researchers studied nasal and bronchial cells from people who suffer from asthma or chronic rhinosinusitis (nasal congestion / sniffles) due to dust - mite sensitivity, and found that on average these cells had a markedly lower expression of the dectin - 1 gene.

«While the short - term effects of cleaning chemicals on asthma are becoming increasingly well documented, we lack knowledge of the long - term impact,» said senior study author Cecile Svanes, MD, PhD, a professor at the university's Centre for International Health.

Meanwhile, a raft of studies suggest that infants who are fed breast milk may have lower incidences of asthma, diabetes, obesity and other health problems later on in life.

ResearchKit already has five apps, live now, that link users to studies on Parkinson's disease, diabetes, asthma, breast cancer and heart disease.

A study of 9,000 women found that those who ate high levels of sugar during pregnancy were around twice as likely to have a child that went on to develop allergic asthma than woman who ate relatively little sugar.

«We can not say on the basis of these observations that high intake of sugar by mothers in pregnancy is definitely causing allergy and allergic asthma in their offspring,» says Seif Shaheen, at Queen Mary, University of London, who led the study.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 12, found that early lung function predicts lung growth later in life, regardless of asthma treatment and smoking exposure.

In the new work, researchers looked at genetic and health data on more than 100,000 individuals from previous large studies to determine whether genetic alterations that are associated with vitamin D levels predispose people to asthma, dermatitis, or high IgE levels.

«The impact of overweight and obesity on asthma has not been studied in the youngest asthma patients, and this finding is the opposite of what has been seen in older kids and adults who are overweight,» Lang said.

The authors believe this is the first study on whether obesity impacts asthma severity and the effectiveness of inhalers in preschoolers, but the study does have limitations, including that it was a retrospective analysis, one that searches back in time to seek patterns.

The study is the first to link asthma to hexachlorobenzene exposure during fetal development, and builds on two earlier studies that linked the respiratory disease to polychlorinated biphenyls.

Bisphenol A: Health studies on BPA kept rolling in, linking the ubiquitous chemical to cancer, obesity and asthma.

The current study was designed to investigate whether bariatric surgery — regarded as the most effective option for morbidly obese patients — might have a greater effect on asthma - associated risks.

Although the immune mechanisms implicated in the development of childhood asthma are not fully understood, some studies seem to suggest that the BCG vaccine, used in tuberculosis prevention, may have a protective effect on childhood asthma.

Dr Alexander Mazein, lead author of the study from the European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, commented: «In - depth understanding of asthma means redefinition of asthma subtypes based on the mechanisms that lead to the development of the disease.

While this study focused on testosterone, Newcomb hopes to expand further studies to explore the effects of more sex hormones on asthma.

The team studied more than 4,000 patients (adults and children) who were taking daily asthma medicines and focused their analysis on two groups: patients who had stable asthma for at least one year who stayed on their same daily asthma medicine and patients who had stable asthma for at least one year who stepped down their daily asthma medicine.

The new study will focus on four areas of high public health concern: obesity, birth defects and other early outcomes, neurodevelopmental disorders (such as autism and depression), and airway diseases (such as asthma and allergies).

Naomi Shah's studies on common indoor air pollutants» effects on asthma patients got her the award for the 15 - to 16 - year - old group.

A 2011 study that examined the impact of Arizona's smoke - free air law on hospital admissions for heart attacks, chest pain, stroke and asthma found the law resulted in a statistically significant decrease in all four conditions.

This deficit in African ancestry genomic data was identified during an 18 - month long study conducted under the auspices of the larger Consortium on Asthma among African - Ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA).

Studies on communities living around such farms have indicated individuals exposed to the odors and emissions from around the lagoons have more respiratory complaints and increased asthma symptoms.

«As the most prevalent chronic illness in children, asthma imposes a major financial burden on many health care systems,» said study leader Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Outcomes Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Several studies have identified a link between asthma and female infertility, but the impact of asthma treatments on fertility has been unclear,» Dr Grzeskowiak says.

Dr. Brett Finlay had an unusual request for the researchers at McMaster University, who were embarking on a large - scale study on children's susceptibility to asthma.

In a report of the study's findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on March 6, researchers compared professional pest management treatments plus education with education alone and found no significant differences in asthma symptoms or mouse allergen exposure between the two groups.

This study focused on ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) such as diabetes, alcoholism, asthma and dementia, where the provision of better care outside hospital, by GPs and other healthcare professionals, can potentially reduce the need for admission.

The study found that health effects of wildfire pollution are significantly associated with poverty and income inequality.18 The study first finds that per 100µg / m3 of PM2.5 exposure, there was a 66 percent increase for hospital visits related to asthma on the day of exposure, and a 42 percent increase in visits related to congestive heart failure (CHF) the day after exposure.

These findings are consistent with other studies, as highlighted in a critical review of the literature on the health impacts of wildfires published in 2016 by Reid et al. 17 Various respiratory problems in asthmatics and non-asthmatics alike, measured by physician visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations were found to be strongly associated with wildfire smoke exposure as well as significant declines in lung function for those without asthma.17

In conclusion, the results of the present study demonstrate the effect of Hyssopus officinalis L. on chronic asthma, and may provide a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of chronic asthma.

Data on patients receiving active drug in the trial were consistent with a dose - dependent improvement in some parameters of lung function examined in the study, including methacholine challenge test and peak expiratory flow rates, as well as in a biomarker associated with asthma severity and inflammation.