AIMS To analyze the changes in the prevalence of asthma, bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) and allergies in elite athletes over the past years, to review the specific pathogenetic features of these conditions and to make recommendations for their diagnosis. METHODS The Task Force reviewed present literature by searching Medline up to November 2006 for relevant papers by the search words: as...

451 TheRelationship BetweenEmotional Cognition and the Symptom Gap inPatientswithBronchialAsthma: theEffects ofAlexithymia and Empathy Sonomi Nakajima. Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suitashi, Japan. Background: When symptoms are poorly controlled, patients with bronchial asthma may show a symptom gap: a cognitive divergence between the true severity o...

In India and around the globe, asthma is one of most prevalent chronic childhood disorders a major public health concern. It common in children aged 6-7, next 12- 13, finally 14-16. The frequency was considerably higher among individuals with family history asthma, smoking habits, where there lack smoke outlet house. By using identical homoeopathic treatments, it has shown overall results as co...

BACKGROUND Chronic respiratory diseases, like bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are a worldwide health problem. Quantitative and qualitative assessment of asthma and COPD-related research from Arab countries has not been explored and there are few internationally published reports on such field. The main objectives of this study were to analyze research output o...

Bronchial asthma is a condition where the occurrence of mucus hypersecretion, narrowing airway. Symptoms bronchial apart from shortness breath accompanied by wheezing sound, sufferers also experience productive cough because sputum thick and difficult to remove. There are two simple easy therapies treat in removal airway cleaning, namely postural drainage position effective cough. The aim this ...

OBJECTIVE Persulfate salts are among the most frequently implicated causes of occupational asthma. The aim of this study was to describe the course of bronchial hyperresponsiveness and immunologic test results in patients with occupational asthma due to persulfate salts. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten patients with occupational asthma due to persulfate salts were studied. Diagnosis was based on spe...

We have read the recent paper by BAcKER and coworkers [1] in which they confirm findings of previous surveys that there is a considerable overlap in bronchial responsiveness between asthmatics and non-asthmatics. Most of these surveys have used a fixed threshold level as a positive test criterion, for instance PC 20 FEV 1 $8 g·l methacholine. However, several studies [2, 3] show that bronchial ...

I n recent years there has been special focus on the increased occurrence of asthma and bronchial responsiveness among top athletes within endurance sports. As early as 1989, an increase in nonspecific bronchial responsiveness after heavy endurance training was found in young competitive swimmers [1]. Later, reports were made concerning increased prevalence of asthma and bronchial hyperresponsi...

Bronchial responsiveness assessed by histamine bronchial challenge testing in 22 children with chronic stable asthma was compared with the number of inflammatory cells per milliliter of broncholavage fluid obtained by fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Hyperresponsiveness was closely correlated with increased counts of eosinophils and macrophages and with the ratio of eosinophils to macrophages. There wa...

It was recently shown that 30% of adults with a physician diagnosis of asthma did not have asthma when objectively assessed using a four-step algorithm involving serial spirometry, bronchial challenge testing and subsequent tapering of asthma medications. The objective of the present study was to determine how many steps in the algorithm were required in order to confirm asthma, and whether any...