Topic: National Institutes Of Health
Approximately 2.5 percent of the U.S. population, or about 7.6 million Americans, have food allergies, with the highest rates found in children, non-Hispanic blacks and males, according to a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Interestingly, data ...
Javeed Akhter, M.D., Section Head of Pediatric Pulmonology at Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., offers the following answer: These large cells, filled with potent inflammation-inducing chemicals called leukotrienes, line the respiratory tract and play a central role in allergy-induced asthma. ...
Although it comes as a surprise to many people, exercise is one of the most common triggers of asthma attacks. Exercise is still one of the best things you can do for your body, but if you have exercise-induced asthma, it can ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who say their asthma gets worse when the weather changes are on to something, new research hints.Dr. Alan Baptist of the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor and his colleagues found that pediatric ...
A new study shows that monitoring levels of exhaled nitric oxide in adolescents with asthma and adjusting treatment accordingly does not improve the course of their disease.. The study was conducted by the Inner City Asthma Consortium (ICAC), which is funded by ...
Factors associated with asthma diagnosed in adulthood include persistent wheezing in early life, bronchial hyper-responsiveness at 6 years of age, and allergic or non-allergic rhinitis in adulthood, according to the results of two studies published in the Sept. 20 issue of The ...
Researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta have developed a portable sensor system to monitor the air quality for people suffering from asthma. The only way that we are going to understand how environmental factors affect asthma is if we ...
More than 50 percent of the current asthma cases in the U.S. are the result of allergies, especially to cats, according to a new National Institutues of Health (NIH) study. The new research shows that 56.3 percent of asthma cases can be ...
New Asthma Guidelines Urge Better Day-To-Day Control, Not Just Attention to Bad AttacksBreathing easier without limiting activities is the goal of new government guidelines that urge more attention to asthma sufferers' day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks.Some 22 million Americans have ...
Breathing easier without limiting activities is the goal of new government guidelines that urge more attention to asthma sufferers' day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks.Some 22 million Americans have asthma, and guidelines updated Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health stress ...
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