Prevalência da asma em regiões do Município do Rio de Janeiro by Márcia Garcia Alves Galvão, Marilene A.R. Crispino Santos, Francisco Charles Souza Carvalho, Henrique Pazos F. Martins, Jade Cecílio B. Sampaio, Gabriel Miranda Barbosa

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Implementing Practice Guidelines: A Workshop on Guidelines Dissemination and Implementation with a Focus on Asthma and COPD by Louis-Philippe Boulet, Allan Becker, Dennis Bowie, Paul Hernandez, Andrew McIvor, Michel Rouleau, Jean Bourbeau, Ian D Graham, Jo Logan, France Légaré, Thomas F Ward, Robert L Cowie, Denis Drouin, Stewart B Harris, Robyn Tamblyn, Pierre Ernst, Wan C Tan, Martyn R Partridge, Philippe Godard, Carla T Herrerias, John W Wilson, Liz Stirling, Emily-Brynn Rozitis, Nancy Garvey, Diane Lougheed, Manon Labrecque, Renata Rea, Martin C Holroyde, Danielle Fagnan, Eileen Dorval, Lisa Pogany, Alan Kaplan, Lisa Cicutto, Mary L Allen, Serge Moraca, J Mark FitzGerald, Francine Borduas

“…The present supplement summarizes the proceedings of the symposium “Implementing practice guidelines: A workshop on guidelines dissemination and implementation with a focus on asthma and COPD”, which took place in Quebec City, Quebec, from April 14 to 16, 2005. …”
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Network Pharmacology Analysis of the Identification of Phytochemicals and Therapeutic Mechanisms of Paeoniae Radix Alba for the Treatment of Asthma by Jingwei Wang, Ling Peng, Lu Jin, Huiying Fu, Qiyang Shou

“…., has been suggested to play an important role for the treatment of asthma. A biochemical understanding of the clinical effects of Paeoniae Radix Alba is needed. …”
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Biological treatment options for eosinophilic asthma, with consideration of markers of eosinophilic inflammation as predictors of treatment efficacy by Aleksandra Niemiec, Olga Branicka, Barbara Rymarczyk, Radosław Gawlik

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Linking Endotoxins, African Dust PM10 and Asthma in an Urban and Rural Environment of Puerto Rico by Mario G. Ortiz-Martínez, Rosa I. Rodríguez-Cotto, Mónica A. Ortiz-Rivera, Cedric W. Pluguez-Turull, Braulio D. Jiménez-Vélez

“…The contribution of ADE PM10 ENX is valuable in order to understand interactions and action mechanisms of airborne pollutants as asthma triggers in PR.…”
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Protocol for the enhanced management of multimorbid patients with COPD and severe asthma: role of indoor air quality by Emili Vela, Isaac Cano, Josep Roca, Antoni Sisó-Almirall, Carme Hernandez, Ebymar Arismendi, Ramon Farré, Alba Gómez-López, María Figols, Antonio Montilla-Ibarra, Núria Sánchez-Ruano, Benigno Sánchez, Marta Sorribes, Jordi Piera-Jiménez, Jaume Benavent, Jose Fermoso, Rubèn González-Colom

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Paper Stamp Checklist Tool Enhances Asthma Guidelines Knowledge and Implementation by Primary Care Physicians by PM Renzi, H Ghezzo, S Goulet, E Dorval, RL Thivierge

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Associations between environmental exposures and asthma control and exacerbations in young children: a systematic review by Steve Turner, Jon G Ayres, Hilary Cowie, Smita Dick, Emma Doust

“…Objective To complete a systematic review of the literature describing associations between all environmental exposures and asthma symptoms and exacerbations in children up to mean age of 9 years.Design Systematic review.Setting Reference lists of identified studies and reviews were searched for all articles published until November 2013 in electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Controls Trials Register).Participants Studies were selected which examined a link between exposure to environmental factors and asthma symptoms and exacerbations where the study participants were children with a mean age of ⩽9 years.Primary and secondary outcome measures Indices of asthma symptoms, control and exacerbations.Results A total of 27 studies were identified including eight where inhaled allergens and four where environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) were the exposures of interest. …”
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Action Plans in Patients Presenting to Emergency Departments with Asthma Exacerbations: Frequency of Use and Description of Contents by Elfriede Cross, Cristina Villa-Roel, Sumit R Majumdar, Mohit Bhutani, Rhonda J Rosychuk, Stephanie Couperthwaite, Brian H Rowe

“…BACKGROUND: Although underused, written asthma action plans (AAPs) are associated with reduced numbers of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations.…”
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How Many Individuals with Asthma Need to Be Vaccinated to Prevent One Case of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease? by Julie M Okapuu, Estelle Chétrit, Brigitte Lefebvre, Caroline Quach

“…BACKGROUND: The American Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the inclusion of adults with asthma in the high-risk category for pneumococcal vaccination based on a twofold increase in risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD).…”
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Metalloproteinases and their Inhibitors under the Course of Immunostimulation by CPG-ODN and Specific Antigen Inhalation in Equine Asthma by Ann Kristin Barton, Tarek Shety, John Klier, Sabine Geis, Ralf Einspanier, Heidrun Gehlen

“…CpG-ODN inhalation may be an effective therapy in the prevention of pulmonary fibrosis formation in equine asthma.…”
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LTA4H rs2660845 association with montelukast response in early and late-onset asthma. by Cyrielle Maroteau, Antonio Espuela-Ortiz, Esther Herrera-Luis, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Fiona Carr, Roger Tavendale, Karen Wilson, Natalia Hernandez-Pacheco, James D Chalmers, Steve Turner, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee, Esteban G Burchard, Maria Pino-Yanes, Simon Young, Glenda Lassi, Adam Platt, Colin N A Palmer, PiCA Consortium

“…Leukotrienes play a central pathophysiological role in both paediatric and adult asthma. However, 35% to 78% of asthmatics do not respond to leukotriene inhibitors. …”
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Health loss and economic burden of asthma in China: a qualitative review based on existing literature by Peng Zhang, Jiaxin Xu, Baichuan Xu, Yiyin Zhang, Yang Xie

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Is insomnia a risk factor for new-onset asthma? A population-based study in Taiwan by Shih-Feng Weng, Chih-Cheng Lai, Yu-Chieh Lin, Chih-Chiang Chien, Chin-Ming Chen, Shyh-Ren Chiang, Chung-Han Ho, Kuo-Chen Cheng

“…All of the patients were followed up for 4 years to see whether new-onset asthma developed. Patients with previous asthma or insomnia were excluded. …”
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Biochemical Behaviours of Salmeterol/Fluticasone Propionate in Treating Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) by Hilla Mills, Ronald Acquah, Nova Tang, Luke Cheung, Susanne Klenk, Ronald Glassen, Magali Pirson, Alain Albert, Duong Trinh Hoang, Thang Nguyen Van

“…Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) and asthma are fatal. The respiratory tract may be blocked, robbed of the adequate amounts of oxygen; hence, death ensues if a quick medical attention is not provided. …”
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Effect of Nasal Obstructive Disorders on Sinonasal Symptoms in Children with Different Levels of Bronchial Asthma Control by T. I. Eliseeva, S. V. Krasilnikova, N. A. Geppe, S. Yu. Babaev, E. V. Tush, O. V. Khaletskaya, D. Yu. Ovsyannikov, I. I. Balabolkin, S. K. Ignatov, N. I. Kubysheva

“…Allergic rhinitis (AR) and allergic rhinosinusitis (ARS) are typical upper airway pathologies (UAP) in children with bronchial asthma (BA) frequently accompanied with nasal obstructive diseases (NOD). …”
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Predicting dupilumab effectiveness with Type-2 biomarkers: A real-world study of severe asthma by Kenji Mizumura, Yasuhiro Gon, Norihiro Harada, Shiho Yamada, Asami Fukuda, Ryosuke Ozoe, Shuichiro Maruoka, Sumiko Abe, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Akihiko Tanaka, Hironori Sagara, Taisuke Akamatsu, Toshihiro Shirai, Katsunori Masaki, Koichi Fukunaga, Konomi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nagase, Nobuaki Miyahara, Arihiko Kanehiro, Noboru Kitamura, Naruhiko Sugihara, Fumio Kumasawa, Junko Terada-Hirashima, Masayuki Hojo, Kazuyuki Chibana, Etsuko Tagaya

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Identification of the Role of Mume fructus in Treating Nocturnal Asthma Based on Network Pharmacology and In vitro Investigation by Ling-Ling Tang, Yan-Qiu Xu, Ying Yang, Xian-Hong Sun, Bo-Han Wang, Xiao-Lu Shi, Li Liu

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Pulmonary Remodeling in Equine Asthma: What Do We Know about Mediators of Inflammation in the Horse? by Ann Kristin Barton, Heidrun Gehlen

“…Equine inflammatory airway disease (IAD) and recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) represent a spectrum of chronic inflammatory disease of the airways in horses resembling human asthma in many aspects. Therefore, both are now described as severity grades of equine asthma. …”
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ISU201 Enhances the Resolution of Airway Inflammation in a Mouse Model of an Acute Exacerbation of Asthma by Yuka Hiroshima, Linda Garthwaite, Kenneth Hsu, Hyouna Yoo, Sang-Ho Park, Carolyn L. Geczy, Rakesh K. Kumar, Cristan Herbert

“…Glucocorticoids are commonly used for treating asthma and its exacerbations but have well-recognised adverse effects and are not always effective. …”
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