Asthma News This Week – June 14, 2019

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In the NEWS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Health Promoting Financial Incentives May Help Mothers Quit Smoking

  • Asthma Severity is Associated with Less Physical Activity Among Children

  • Paid Family Leave May Help Reduce Asthma Prevalence

  • Mexican Immigrant Children More Often Undiagnosed, Receive Different Care

  • Home-Based Asthma Interventions Shown To Be Effective Across the Literature

  • Children with Asthma More Likely to Have BD-Resistant Airflow Limitations than Children with Other Pulmonary Conditions

  • Limited English Not Associated with Worse Asthma Outcomes in One Hospital

  • Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Associated with Current Childhood Asthma

  • Group Visits Are Viable Means to Improve Asthma Management

  • DNA Methylation May Provide Asthma Biomarkers

  • Asthma Burden Attributable to Traffic-Related Air Pollution Drops to 18-36%

  • Bronchodilator Response to SABAs Differs by Population as well as Genetics

  • Exposure to Alternaria Mold in Schools May Trigger Asthma Symptoms

  • Asthma Clusters in More Non-White and Poorer Areas of St. Louis, MO

  • Inconclusive Study of Cannabis Smoke in Home’s Effect on Asthma, etc. Health

  • Decreases in Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide, PM2.5 Lead to Lower Asthma Incidence

  • PROMIS Model Reliably Predicts General Health Among Children with Asthma

  • Asthma Phenotypes Vary According to Underlying Pathophysiology

  • Model Estimates that Reducing OCS dose 5 mg/day Increases PBE Count 41%

  • School-Based Program Promoting Coping Skills Improves Asthma-Related Stress


Asthma News This Week – May 20, 2019

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CONTENTS

In the NEWS

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Childrens’ Self-Report of Asthma Symptoms May Improve Records

  • Asthma Self-Monitor App Improves Pediatric Outcomes

  • CHWs May Close Gaps Between Home-, School-, and Primary Asthma Care

  • Childhood Atopic Dermatitis and Asthma May Affect Emotions and Behavior

  • Variation in Epinephrine Auto-injector Needle Length May Affect Safety

Asthma News This Week – April 26, 2019

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In the NEWS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Ventilators May Provide Treatment for Childhood Asthma Attacks

  • Focus on Asthma Phenotyping and Management in School-Aged Children

  • Selecting Treatment Approach Based on Phenotype for Children with Asthma

  • Childhood Trauma Linked to Increased Risk of Asthma

Asthma News This Week – April 15, 2019

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In the NEWS

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Pediatric Psychologists May Support Asthma Treatment Adherence

  • New Research on Associations Between Asthma, Comorbidities, and Risk Factors

  • Traffic Pollution May Cause 4 Million Cases of Childhood Asthma Worldwide

  • Evaluation Identifies Two Best Asthma Management Apps

  • Review of Method to Identifying Best Initial Medication Treatment Approaches

  • Group Visits May Help Improve Asthma Management Among High-Risk Patients

  • Secondhand Smoke Exposure At Home Reduces Health-related Quality of Life

  • Asthma Associated with Chronic Absenteeism

  • New Clinical Trial Studies Efficacy of CHWs and Asthma Educators in Chicago

  • Lancet Editorial Announces UK Study of Biologics for Childhood Asthma

Asthma News This Week – April 1, 2019

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CONTENTS 

In the NEWS

 JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Montelukast linked to neuropsychiatric events in children

  • Tertiary interventions may be necessary to target individual asthma triggers

  • Healthy lifestyles may help prevent and control asthma symptoms

  • Wheezing phenotypes vary but consistently predict poorer lung function

  • As treatment options for childhood asthma emerge, a need for efficacy evidence

  • Chicago trial links families to home-based asthma CHW interventions

  • Need identified for methods to predict severe therapy-resistant childhood asthma

  • Indoor particulate matter (PM) may be a worse asthma trigger than outdoor PM

  • Certain antioxidant flavonoids may reduce lung inflammation

  • Poor methodologies in environmental allergen control intervention research

  • Reverse causation unlikely to confound asthma risk factors

  • Vitamin D may mitigate correlation between maternal and child asthma

  • Condition-response interactions identified between health outcomes and pollution

  • AAP highlights disparities in child hospitalization outcomes

  • AAP updates clinical report on maternal and infant diet and asthma/allergy

  • Indoor cannabis smoke might exacerbate childhood asthma symptoms