ALLMedicine™ Asthma Center

Nov 24th, 2020 - While intravenous magnesium decreases hospitalizations in refractory pediatric acute asthma, it is variably used because of invasiveness and safety concerns. The benefit of nebulized magnesium to prevent hospitalization is unknown. To evaluate the...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Medication non-adherence (MNA) constitutes a complex health problem contributing to increased economic burden and poor health outcomes. The Medication Adherence Model (MAM) supports that numerous processes are involved in medication adherence (MA)...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Quality improvement (QI) efforts can improve guideline-recommended asthma care processes in the pediatric office setting. We sought to assess whether practice participation in an asthma QI collaborative was associated with decreased asthma-related...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Asthma remains a leading cause of hospitalization in US children. Well-child care (WCC) visits are routinely recommended, but how WCC adherence relates to asthma outcomes is poorly described. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal cohort study ...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Few evidences are available about the impact of temperature variation on childhood asthma in different seasons. This study aimed to assess the influence of temperature changes between neighboring days (TCN) on the exacerbation of asthma among chil...

Jul 8th, 2020 - Hypovitaminosis D has been linked to several non-bone diseases. Relation between 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and lung function and lung diseases has received little attention at the global level. Cross-sectional data from three National Health a...

Mar 14th, 2020 - Approximately 1% to 4% of all visits to primary care offices are for dyspnea.1 The proper use of pulmonary function tests can help differentiate many of the causes of dyspnea, monitor the progression of chronic pulmonary disease, and assess respon...

Jan 23rd, 2020 - Asthma and non-asthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis (NAEB) are among the commonest causes of chronic cough in adults. We sought to determine the role of non-invasive measurements of airway inflammation, including induced sputum and fractional exhaled...

Oct 27th, 2019 - Asthma affects approximately 300 million people worldwide and approximately 7.5% of adults in the United States. Among adults, asthma results in about 10.5 million physician office visits per year and affects approximately 8.7% of blacks, 7.6% of ...

Oct 16th, 2019 - Single-dose Xofluza is the first and only antiviral medicine indicated specifically for patients at high risk of developing serious complications from influenza (flu) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines people at high ris...

Nov 24th, 2020 - While intravenous magnesium decreases hospitalizations in refractory pediatric acute asthma, it is variably used because of invasiveness and safety concerns. The benefit of nebulized magnesium to prevent hospitalization is unknown. To evaluate the...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Medication non-adherence (MNA) constitutes a complex health problem contributing to increased economic burden and poor health outcomes. The Medication Adherence Model (MAM) supports that numerous processes are involved in medication adherence (MA)...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Quality improvement (QI) efforts can improve guideline-recommended asthma care processes in the pediatric office setting. We sought to assess whether practice participation in an asthma QI collaborative was associated with decreased asthma-related...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Asthma remains a leading cause of hospitalization in US children. Well-child care (WCC) visits are routinely recommended, but how WCC adherence relates to asthma outcomes is poorly described. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal cohort study ...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Few evidences are available about the impact of temperature variation on childhood asthma in different seasons. This study aimed to assess the influence of temperature changes between neighboring days (TCN) on the exacerbation of asthma among chil...

Nov 17th, 2020 - Shift workers, especially those working permanent night-shift rotas, may be at heightened risk of moderate to severe asthma, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax. The observational study, led by researchers at the University of...

Nov 16th, 2020 - Medication adherence remains a truly challenging issue. For most chronic diseases, up to 20%-30% of the pills that are prescribed are not taken. In the case of inhalers for asthma and COPD, patients miss over half of the prescribed doses. There ar...

Nov 15th, 2020 - A new tool can predict when an asthma exacerbation will put a child in the hospital for 2 days or more, researchers report. Jose Rojas Camayo "Heart rate, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation levels with percentile-based cutoffs are independent...

Nov 13th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 is no more severe in patients with allergy and asthma than in those without these conditions, new research reveals. "My patients will cer...

Nov 9th, 2020 - Takeaway This exploratory analysis of the Oral Steroids for Acute Cough (OSAC) trial suggests that moderate-dose oral prednisolone does not reduce the duration of moderately bad or worse cough and symptom severity at days 2-4 in patients presentin...