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Researchers found significant differences in genes potentially linked to adult-onset asthma and childhood-onset asthma, with little overlap between the two.
looked at a total of 1,140 children selected randomly from 8 schools in Bengaluru South Zone and found that 66 of them had bronchial asthma. The children were between the age group of 10 and 15 ...
[1] The mainstay of treatment of acute asthma in children is 2-adrenergic agents such as salbutamol delivered in frequent high doses or continuously nebulized together with corticosteroids.
Although bronchial hyperresponsiveness to cholinergic agents is a main feature of asthma, the role of anticholinergic drugs in chronic asthma management has been largely underestimated.
Controlled trials that undertook a physical training programme in children with asthma (aged 6 ... The effects of training on asthma control, airway inflammation and bronchial hyper-responsiveness ...
Murder charges have been dropped against five individuals originally arrested and charged in connection to the death of ...
It found that 287, or 6.5 percent, of the 4,425 children officially recognized as disaster victims were newly prescribed asthma inhalers within the year after the floods, compared with 59,469, or ...
Antibiotic exposure in children under two is linked to increased asthma and allergy risks by age 12, with significant risk differences for asthma and atopic dermatitis. The study found weak ...
Exposure to higher ozone levels in the first two years of life is linked to a significant increase in asthma and wheezing in children aged 4–6, but not at ages 8–9. A 2 ppb increase in ozone ...