Teenage girls with asthma need smoking cessation support
Researchers say that adolescent girls with asthma who smoke may need significant support to help them quit the habit. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 29, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Childhood asthma, eczema linked to adolescent psychotic experiences
UK research indicates that children with asthma and eczema are significantly more likely to have psychotic experiences during adolescence, boosting a previously reported relationship between schizophrenia and atopic disorders. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 28, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Call for greater beta blocker use in COPD
Researchers say that stubbornly low rates of beta-blocker prescribing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease could be contributing toward increased mortality in these patients following myocardial infarction. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 27, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Asthma patients ‘too accepting of symptoms’
Researchers from the UK report that patients with asthma continue to overestimate their asthma control, and many accept symptoms as the norm. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 26, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Novel urinary antigen test boosts S. pneumoniae CAP detection
Research published in the European Respiratory Journal shows that addition of a serotype-specific urinary antigen detection test to existing diagnostic methods can increase the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia by over a third. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 25, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Chronic bronchitis could indicate COPD subtype
Chronic bronchitis is common among patients with chronic obstructive disease and may represent a subtype of the disease that places patients at risk for increased severity and exacerbations, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 24, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
QoL, BMI predict exacerbations in Japanese COPD patients
Analysis of a cohort of Japanese chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with a low exacerbation frequency shows that low body mass index and poor health-related quality of life independently predict flare ups of the disease. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 21, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Asthma prolongs time to pregnancy
Research shows that women with asthma take longer to conceive than women without the condition, an effect that grows stronger with age. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 20, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Teenage bereavement linked to asthma hospitalization risk
Research shows that children who experience bereavement during late adolescence are at increased risk for asthma hospitalizations. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 19, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
6MWT does not reflect activity in primary care COPD patients
Researchers have found that functional exercise capacity does not reflect physical activity among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients treated in primary care. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 18, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Air pollution link to early childhood pneumonia
European research shows that exposure to elevated levels of air pollutants is associated with an increased risk for pneumonia before the age of 3 years, and particularly in the first year of life. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 18, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
LLN spirometry inadequate to detect airflow obstruction
Research published in Thorax indicates that use of a lower limit of normal spirometric threshold fails to identify a number of patients with airflow obstruction and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 15, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Young adults with asthma ‘need cold weather care’
Researchers say that young adults with asthma should receive extra care and guidance during the winter months, to stop the effects of cold weather exposure from limiting their activities. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 15, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Moderately preterm births add to asthma burden
Research from Finland shows that children born late preterm or early term are at significantly increased risk for asthma compared with those born at term, and these births account for the majority of excess asthma burden due to prematurity. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 13, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Index predicts asthma in high-risk preschool children
Researchers have shown that the modified Asthma Predictive Index has high predictive value for future asthma development, when applied in the first 3 years of life. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - November 12, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
