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The role of the early-life gut microbiome in childhood asthma [PDF]

Gut Microbes
Asthma is a chronic disease affecting millions of children worldwide, and in severe cases requires hospitalization. The etiology of asthma is multifactorial, caused by both genetic and environmental factors.
Ulrika Boulund, Jonathan Thorsen, Urvish Trivedi, Kaare Tranæs, Jie Jiang, Shiraz A. Shah, Jakob Stokholm   +6 more
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“Black People Like Me”: A virtual conference series to engage underserved patients with asthma in patient centered outcomes research

Research Involvement and Engagement, 2023
Plain English summary There are more Black people with asthma in the US than White people. Black people have more hospital stays or deaths from asthma than White people. This highlights the need for Black people to be involved in research.
LeRoy Graham, Mary Hart, Michael Stinson, Rhoda Moise, Lynda Mitchell, Tonya A. Winders, Donna D. Gardner   +6 more
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A Twin Study of Early-Childhood Asthma in Puerto Ricans [PDF]

, 2013
Background:The relative contributions of genetics and environment to asthma in Hispanics or to asthma in children younger than 3 years are not well understood.Objective:To examine the relative contributions of genetics and environment to early-childhood ...
Bunyavanich, S, Canino, G, Celedn, JC, Gillespie, NA, Lange, NE, Lasky-Su, J, Silberg, JL   +6 more
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Investigating the impact of London’s ultra low emission zone on children’s health: children’s health in London and Luton (CHILL) protocol for a prospective parallel cohort study

BMC Pediatrics, 2023
Background Air pollution harms health across the life course. Children are at particular risk of adverse effects during development, which may impact on health in later life.
Ivelina Tsocheva, James Scales, Rosamund Dove, Jasmine Chavda, Harpal Kalsi, Helen E Wood, Grainne Colligan, Louise Cross, Chris Newby, Amy Hall, Mia Keating, Luke Sartori, Jessica Moon, Ann Thomson, Florian Tomini, Aisling Murray, Wasim Hamad, Sarah Tijm, Alice Hirst, Britzer Paul Vincent, Pavani Kotala, Frances Balkwill, Borislava Mihaylova, Jonathan Grigg, Jennifer K Quint, Monica Fletcher, Mark Mon-Williams, John Wright, Esther van Sluijs, Sean Beevers, Gurch Randhawa, Sandra Eldridge, Aziz Sheikh, William Gauderman, Frank Kelly, Ian S Mudway, Christopher J Griffiths   +36 more
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The adherence to and utility of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines for treating COPD among pulmonary specialists: a retrospective analysis

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023
Background Despite the evidence-based guidelines promoted by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), the overuse of prescription drugs to manage COPD, particularly inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), remains a persistent challenge ...
Fortune O. Alabi, Hadaya A. Alkhateeb, Mukudzeishe T. Zibanayi, Jica Garces, Kayla M. DeBarros, Pierina S. Benel Barletti, Kayla Garcia, Randall K. James   +7 more
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Spermidine and spermine exert protective effects within the lung

Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2021
Asthma is a heterologous disease that is influenced by complex interactions between multiple environmental exposures, metabolism, and host immunoregulatory processes. Specific metabolites are increasingly recognized to influence respiratory inflammation.
Marcin Wawrzyniak, David Groeger, Remo Frei, Ruth Ferstl, Paulina Wawrzyniak, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Benoit Pugin, Weronika Barcik, Patrick Westermann, Anita Dreher, Michael Scharl, Marek Jutel, Cezmi A. Akdis, Liam O`Mahony   +13 more
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It takes a village: perceptions of Winnipeg parents, students, teachers and school staff regarding the impact of food allergy on school-age students and their families

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2022
Background The entire school community contributes to the safety of students with food allergy. We sought to determine the food allergy perceptions and education needs of parents, students and school staff, with the goal of enhancing food allergy ...
Nancy Ross, Sandra Dalke, Shauna Filuk, Bev Kulbaba, Diane Marks, Jo-Anne St-Vincent, Elinor Simons   +6 more
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Does asthma impair wealth accumulation or does wealth protect against asthma? [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVE: We investigate the association between adult asthma and wealth, testing whether the disease impairs wealth accumulation (social selection model) or if wealth protects against asthma (social causation model).
Smith, Patricia K., Zagorsky, Jay L.
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Mast Cells in Cutaneous Allergic Vasculitis: A Case Report

Allergology International, 2006
Background: The mechanism of cutaneous allergic vasculitis still remains unclear, and to the best of our knowledge, no case has been reported in the literature in which the number of mast cells was examined.
Hiroaki Inamura, Yasushi Igarashi, Yayoi Kashiwase, Junichiro Morioka, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Motohiro Kurosawa   +5 more
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Reslizumab in patients with inadequately controlled late-onset asthma and elevated blood eosinophils [PDF]

, 2017
INTRODUCTION: Asthma with adult onset and elevated blood eosinophils is a difficult-to-treat subgroup. This post hoc analysis evaluated reslizumab, an anti-interleukin-5 monoclonal antibody, in patients with late-onset eosinophilic asthma.
Brusselle, Guy, Germinaro, Matthew, Weiss, Sivan, Zangrilli, James   +3 more
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