Psychological interventions in asthma [PDF]
, 2015 Asthma is a multifactorial chronic respiratory disease characterised by recurrent episodes of airway obstruction. The current management of asthma focuses principally on pharmacological treatments, which have a strong evidence base underlying their use ...
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Application of machine learning to support self-management of asthma with mHealth [PDF]
, 2020 While there have been several efforts to use mHealth technologies to support asthma management, none so far offer personalised algorithms that can provide real-time feedback and tailored advice to patients based on their monitoring.
Pinnock, Hilary +3 more
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Manifesto on small airway involvement and management in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an Interasma (Global Asthma Association - GAA) and World Allergy Organization (WAO) document endorsed by Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) and Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN) [PDF]
, 2016 Evidence that enables us to identify, assess, and access the small airways in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has led INTERASMA (Global Asthma Association) and WAO to take a position on the role of the small airways in these ...
A. Cruz +51 more
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Culture-specific programs for children and adults from minority groups who have asthma (Review) [PDF]
, 2009 Background People with asthma who come from minority groups have poorer asthma outcomes and more asthma related visits to Emergency Departments (ED). Various programmes are used to educate and empower people with asthma and these have previously been ...
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In utero tobacco smoke exposure, DNA methylation, and asthma in Latino children. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundMaternal smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for chronic disease later in life and has been associated with variability of DNA methylation at specific cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) loci.
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Measures of asthma control [PDF]
Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2012 Over the past decade, the concept of asthma control as distinct from asthma severity has been clearly defined. Well controlled asthma is the goal of therapy in all asthma patients. This review is a comprehensive description of the tools currently available for a methodical assessment of different aspects of asthma control in clinical practice and ...
Christian, Bime +2 more
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Factors associated with childhood asthma control in a resource-poor center
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2017 Introduction: Optimal asthma control is a major aim of childhood asthma management. This study aimed to determine factors associated with suboptimal asthma control at the pediatric chest clinic of a resource-poor center.
Bankole Peter Kuti +2 more
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Evaluation of inhaler technique and asthma control among children in a low-resource setting
International Journal of Advanced Medical and Health Research, 2022 Background: Inhalation has become the preferred route of drug administration compared to oral medication in managing Asthma due to its direct delivery to the airways, thus producing a faster onset of action and fewer systemic side effects at lower doses ...
Harit Prasad +3 more
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Expression of SMARCD1 interacts with age in association with asthma control on inhaled corticosteroid therapy. [PDF]
, 2020 BackgroundGlobal gene expression levels are known to be highly dependent upon gross demographic features including age, yet identification of age-related genomic indicators has yet to be comprehensively undertaken in a disease and treatment-specific ...
Burchard, Esteban G +22 more
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Preventing and lessening exacerbations of asthma in school-age children associated with a new term (PLEASANT) : Study protocol for a cluster randomised control trial [PDF]
, 2013 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Boote, Jonathan +9 more
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