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A community study of factors related to poorly controlled asthma among Brazilian urban children. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Asthma constitutes a serious public health problem in many regions of the world, including the city of Salvador, State of Bahia-Brazil. The purpose of this study was to analyse the factors associated with poor asthma control.
Cruz, Alvaro A. +30 more
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EGF-induced bronchial epithelial cells drive neutrophil chemotactic and anti-apoptotic activity in asthma [PDF]
Chronic damage and repair of the bronchial epithelium are features of asthma. We have previously reported that ex vivo stimulation of normal bronchial epithelial cells with epidermal growth factor (EGF), a key factor of epithelial repair, enhances the ...
Donna E Davies +52 more
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Utility of serum periostin in combination with exhaled nitric oxide in the management of asthma
Type-2/eosinophilic inflammation plays a pivotal role in asthma. The identification of severe type-2/eosinophilic asthma is important for improving the management of patients with asthma.
Tadao Nagasaki +19 more
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Asthma control and sputum eosinophils in adult patients: a cross-sectional study in southern Brazil
Asthma control and health related quality of life are an important goal of asthma management, but their association with sputum eosinophilic inflammation has been less firmly established.
Vanessa Albano Barcellos +3 more
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Background Eosinophilia is a significant factor in asthma severity; however, the prevalence of severe eosinophilic asthma in Saudi Arabia is largely unknown.
Hamdan Al-Jahdali +6 more
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Development of eosinophilic pneumonia from eosinophilic bronchiolitis without asthma: A case report
Eosinophilic bronchiolitis is a disease concept reported in Japan in 2001, that presents with bronchiolitis accompanied by eosinophilia in the blood and lungs.
Erika Mikami +8 more
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The cough variant asthma [PDF]
Cough variant asthma (CVA) was first described by W. Corrao. CVA was described as the isolated chronic cough as the only presenting symptom responsive to bronchodilator therapy.This phenotype of asthma is present with airway hyperresponsiveness ...
M. O. Uryasjev +3 more
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The pathogenesis of allergic asthma is complex, it is usually caused by immune system imbalance. Th1, Th2, regulatory T cells (Treg) and T helper 17 (Th17) cells have an important role in the pathogenesis of eosinophilic asthma.
Yumei Zhou +4 more
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Background: Severe eosinophilic asthma decreases lung function and causes worsen symptoms, often forcing recurrent maintenance corticosteroid use. The aim of our real-life study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an add-on treatment with benralizumab ...
Giulia Scioscia +14 more
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Adult-onset eosinophilic asthma [PDF]
In the last decades, it has been recognized that asthma is not a single disease, but comprises several clinical syndromes, which all share respiratory symptoms and lung function abnormalities, associated with different types of airway inflammation. These
de Groot, Jantina C., de Groot, J.C.
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