Correspondence to: Dr L M Osman, Chest Clinic, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB25 2ZN, UK; l.osman{at}abdn.ac.uk The risk of asthma episodes may depend on a complex relationship between ...

METHODS 75 children with bronchial asthma and an age and sex matched control group were recruited. Parents completed a questionnaire on gastrointestinal symptoms and on asthma. Weight and height were ...

Significant improvements were observed in asthma control, quality of life, exacerbation frequency, emergency department attendances, and hospital admissions (table 1). T2 biomarkers also improved ...

Intervention: Quadrupling dose of ICS at the early loss of asthma control (vs usual dose of ICS; both groups increased bronchodilator as required). Outcomes: Rates of asthma exacerbation requiring ...

After 2008, asthma control was incorporated into the Finnish Allergy Programme, which built on the previous work and ran until 2018. The Finnish economy has reaped the benefits of the successive ...

A recent paper describes associations between environmental exposures and asthma control and exacerbation ... only the most recent paper was included. A summary table included the following details ...

Findings Compared with the control group, the asthma education group had 54% lower hospitalisation risk (95% CI 0.32 to 0.66), and 31% lower emergency department visit risk (95% CI 0.59 to 0.81).

Further long-term studies are currently in progress, for the evaluation of the efficacy of tiotropium on clinical asthma control, and on the rate and severity of asthma exacerbations, as well as ...

The rates of SSNHL were higher in the asthma group (1.0% (877/90 564)) than in the control group (0.8% (706/90 564), p<0.001, table 1). No differences in the general characteristics of the ...