The Costs of Implementing the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines Recommendation of Asthma Education and Spirometry for the Family Physician by Susan P Corrigan, David L Cecillon, Don D Sin, Heather M Sharpe, Elaine M Andrews, Robert L Cowie, SF Paul Man

“…BACKGROUND: National and international asthma guidelines recommend that patients with asthma be provided with asthma education and spirometry as a component of enhanced asthma care. …”
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Asthma Risk Prevalence and Associated Factors in Stunted Children: A Study Using Asthma Predictive Index by Gartika Sapartini, Gary W. K. Wong, Agnes Rengga Indrati, Cissy B. Kartasasmita, Budi Setiabudiawan

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Moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods offers broad benefits for children with asthma, regardless of sex or other baseline characteristics by Torie L. Grant, MD, MHS, Laken C. Roberts Lavigne, PhD, MPH, Craig Evan Pollack, MD, MHS, Pete Cimbolic, BA, Susan Balcer-Whaley, MPH, Roger D. Peng, PhD, Elizabeth C. Matsui, MD, MHS, Corinne A. Keet, MD, PhD

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Headlines for Health! Asthma Triggers, MD by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Adherence with Preventive Medication in Childhood Asthma by Scott Burgess, Peter Sly, Sunalene Devadason

“…Suboptimal adherence with preventive medication is common and often unrecognised as a cause of poor asthma control. A number of risk factors for nonadherence have emerged from well-conducted studies. …”
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Swimming and Persons with Mild Persistant Asthma by Mirjana Arandelovic, Ivana Stankovic, Maja Nikolic

“…The aim of our study was to analyze the effect of recreational swimming on lung function and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) in patients with mild persistent asthma. This study included 65 patients with mild persistent asthma, who were divided into two groups: experimental group A (n = 45) and control group B (n = 20). …”
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Asthma Mortality in Canada, 1946 to 1990 by Robert S Hogg, Martin T Schechter, Julio SG Montaner, James C Hogg

“…OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of asthma on Canadian mortality rates over a 45-year period.…”
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Occupational Asthma -- The Last 50 Years by Moira Chan-yeung

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Angora Wool Asthma in Textile Industry by Pietro Sartorelli, Riccardo Romeo, Giuseppina Coppola, Roberta Nuti, Valentina Paolucci

“…If the diagnosis of occupational asthma caused by animal hair and skin derivatives may be relatively easy by means of the challenge test, defining etiology is complicated because of the lack of in vitro tests.…”
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Headlines for Health! Asthma Triggers, MD by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Smoking in Health Science Students with Asthma by Georgios Krommydas, Evangelia Kotrotsiou, Vasilios Raftopoulos, Theodosios Paralikas, Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis, Paschalis-Adam Molyvdas

“…Surprisingly, health science students with asthma had a higher prevalence of smoking than their healthy colleagues.…”
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Physician Asthma Management Practices in Canada by Robert Jin, Bernard CK Choi, Benjamin TB Chan, Louise McRae, Felix Li, Lisa Cicutto, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Ian Mitchell, Robert Beveridge, Eric Leith

“…OBJECTIVES: To establish national baseline information on asthma management practices of physicians, to compare the reported practices with the Canadian Consensus recommendations and to identify results potentially useful for interventions that improve physician asthma management practices.…”
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Epigenetics: The New Frontier in the Landscape of Asthma by Bharti Chogtu, Dipanjan Bhattacharjee, Rahul Magazine

“…This is despite the prevalence of varied therapeutic options to counter the pathogenesis of asthma. Asthma, as a disease per se, is a very complex one. …”
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Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis in Quebec Children by Benoît Lévesque, Marc Rhainds, Pierre Ernst, Anne-Marie Grenier, Tom Kosatsky, Nathalie Audet, Pierre Lajoie

“…BACKGROUND: The Health and Social Survey of Quebec Children and Youth, conducted on representative samples of children nine, 13 and 16 years of age, provided data on the prevalence and determinants of asthma and allergic rhinitis in Quebec.…”
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The potential role of nanobodies in asthma therapy by Baraa Khalid Salah Al-Sheakly, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Jennifer E. Hundt, Rabih Halwani, Rabih Halwani

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Asthma Symptoms Do not Predict Spirometry by Robert L Cowie, Margot F Underwood, Stephen K Field

“…BACKGROUND: Asthma is a disease characterized by variable airflow obstruction, but the measurement of airflow is often omitted in the process of diagnosis and management of the disease.…”
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Rhinovirus-Induced Exacerbations of Asthma and COPD by Marc B. Hershenson

“…This review will examine the evidence for viral-induced exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease and the potential mechanisms by which viruses cause exacerbations. …”
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Treatment of Asthma: From the Child to the Adult by Louis-Philippe Boulet, Robert Thivierge

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IL-18 biology in severe asthma by Sarita Thawanaphong, Sarita Thawanaphong, Sarita Thawanaphong, Aswathi Nair, Aswathi Nair, Emily Volfson, Emily Volfson, Parameswaran Nair, Parameswaran Nair, Manali Mukherjee, Manali Mukherjee

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Failure in Asthma Control: Reasons and Consequences by Fulvio Braido

“…Clinical research showed that asthma control is an achievable target. However, real-life observations suggest that a significant proportion of patients suffer from symptoms and report lifestyle limitations with a considerable burden on patient’s quality of life. …”
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