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Difficult vs. Severe Asthma: Definition and Limits of Asthma Control in the Pediatric Population
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Evaluating the degree of disease control is pivotal when assessing a patient with asthma. Asthma control is defined as the degree to which manifestations of the disease are reduced or removed by therapy.
Amelia Licari +5 more
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Asthma outcomes: Composite scores of asthma control [PDF]
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2012 Current asthma guidelines recommend assessing the level of a patient's asthma control. Consequently, there is increasing use of asthma control as an outcome measure in clinical research studies. Several composite assessment instruments have been developed to measure asthma control.National Institutes of Health institutes and federal agencies convened ...
Michelle M, Cloutier +9 more
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Factors related to poor asthma control in Latvian asthma patients between 2013 and 2015
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017 Objectives: To investigate whether beliefs about asthma medication, cognitive and emotional factors are related to poor asthma control in a sample of Latvian asthma patients in 2015. Design: Cross-sectional, self-administered survey.
Dins Smits +4 more
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Identifying ‘well-controlled’ and ‘not well-controlled’ asthma using the Asthma Control Questionnaire [PDF]
Respiratory Medicine, 2006 The 7-item Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ) has been validated to measure the goals of asthma management as defined by international guidelines (minimisation of day- and night-time symptoms, activity limitation, beta(2)-agonist use and bronchoconstriction).
Juniper, Elizabeth F. +3 more
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Pediatric asthma control during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, 2021 Background The lockdown imposed by the COVID‐19 pandemic resulted in a completely different style of life with possible effects on the attitude toward their disease in patients with chronic lung disease, such as asthma.
Valentina Agnese Ferraro +5 more
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Asthma control in the workplace [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2014 Workplace exposures may result, in susceptible workers, in the development of occupational asthma from sensitising or toxic/irritant exposure, or in the worsening of a pre-existing asthmatic condition, so-called “work-exacerbated asthma” [1–3]. Occupational asthma is a relatively common condition, although it is often unrecognised [1, 4].
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Outcomes of Telepharmacy on Asthma Control at Ratchaburi Hospital
Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2023 Objective: This study aimed to assess clinical, humanistic and economic outcomes of telepharmacy in asthma patients. Material and Methods: A quasi-experimental research design, with one-group pretest-posttest, was conducted to study telepharmacy.
Wiwat Thavornwattanayong +1 more
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The global Asthma report 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 Provides up-to-date information about asthma, and summarises what is known and where the gaps lie. The report also makes recommendations to authorities on required actions.
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 BackgroundImpulse oscillometry (IOS) and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) are sensitive and non-invasive methods to measure airway resistance and inflammation, although there are limited population-based studies using IOS and FeNO to predict asthma
Liang-Mei Lin +21 more
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Small Airways: The “Silent Zone” of 2021 GINA Report?
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Asthma is a chronic disease, affecting approximately 350 million people worldwide. Inflammation and remodeling in asthma involve the large airways, and it is now widely accepted that the small airways (those with an internal diameter <2 mm) are ...
Marcello Cottini +10 more
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