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Effects of body weight and posture on pulmonary functions in asthmatic children
Conclusion: There was no effect of weight on standing spirometric data. Weight showed significant negative correlation with asthma control level. We concluded that in overweight/obese asthmatic childr en, spirometric position might affect the results.Keywords: Body weight; posture; asthmatic children.
Source: African Health Sciences - December 16, 2020 Category: African Health Authors: Ghobrial Emad Emil, El Baz Mohamed Saad, Abdel Fattah Mohammed, Haroun Manar Mohamed Source Type: research

A Bidirectional Label Propagation Based Computational Model for Potential Microbe-Disease Association Prediction
Discussion There are numerous microbial communities inhabited in the human body, which is critical to human health. The relationship between human microbiome and diseases received much attention from both medical and bioinformatics community recently. However, traditional methods to detect their association is costly and labor-intensive. Thus, we proposed here a new computational model called NBLPIHMDA to infer potential microbe-disease associations. NBLPIHMDA first combined known microbe-disease associations in HMDAD and the Gaussian interaction profile kernel similarity to construct disease similarity network and microb...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 8, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Association of neck circumference and pulmonary function in children.
CONCLUSION: We identified NC as a novel anthropometric index that is strongly correlated with respiratory functions in children. Therefore, close monitoring of respiratory symptoms, particularly in children with obesity and a large NC, could help with early and prompt determination of respiratory complications of obesity. PMID: 28527867 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - May 17, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Akın O, Arslan M, Haymana C, Karabulut E, Hacihamdioglu B, Yavuz ST Tags: Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol Source Type: research

4th Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Meeting (PAAM)
DISCUSSION SESSION 1: Food allergy (PD01 –PD05)PD01 Allergen-specific humoral and cellular responses in children who fail egg oral immunotherapy due to allergic reactionsMarta Vazquez-Ortiz, Mariona Pascal, Ana Maria Plaza, Manel JuanPD02 FoxP3 epigenetic features in children with cow milk allergyLorella Paparo, Rita Nocerino, Rosita Aitoro, Ilaria Langella, Antonio Amoroso, Alessia Amoroso, Carmen Di Scala, Roberto Berni CananiPD04 Combined milk and egg allergy in early childhood: let them eat cake?Santanu Maity, Giuseppina Rotiroti, Minal GandhiPD05 Introduction of complementary foods in relation to allergy and gut mic...
Source: Clinical and Translational Allergy - October 31, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Effect of sitting vs standing posture on spirometry in children
Asthma is a common medical condition that affects adults and children. National asthma guidelines (National Institutes of Health) recommend spirometry, a pulmonary function test, as an essential part of the initial diagnosis and follow-up care of asthma. Per the American Thoracic Society, traditionally spirometry is performed with the patient in the sitting posture, but usually it is not documented on the spirometry report. During the past 25 years, the rates of overweight and obesity have increased by 30% to 400% among 2- to 19-year-old.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - May 23, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Kumar Swamy, Catherine Isroff, Maroun J. Mhanna, Akhilesh K. Chouksey Tags: Letter Source Type: research

XXIV World Allergy Congress 2015
Table of Contents A1 Pirfenidone inhibits TGF-b1-induced extracellular matrix production in nasal polyp-derived fibroblasts Jae-Min Shin, Heung-Man Lee, Il-Ho Park A2 The efficacy of a 2-week course of oral steroid in the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria refractory to antihistamines Hyun-Sun Yoon, Gyeong Yul Park A3 The altered distribution of follicular t helper cells may predict a more pronounced clinical course of primary sjögren’s syndrome Margit Zeher A4 Betamethasone suppresses Th2 cell development induced by langerhans cell like dendr...
Source: World Allergy Organization Journal - April 18, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Relation of ghrelin, obestatin levels and ghrelin/obestatin ratio with asthma
Conclusions: Ghrelin, obestatin levels and ghrelin/obestatin ratio were similar to the control group in stable asthmatic patients in this study. Although they were similar in terms of body mass index and waist circumference length; homa score were significantly higher in patients with asthma.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Kizilirmak, D., Bozkurt, B. Tags: 5.3 Allergy and Immunology Source Type: research