BACKGROUND Asthma, a common lung disease in children, is caused by excessive immune responses to environmental antigens. OBJECTIVE Given the immuno-modulatory properties of vitamin D, the aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between vitamin D levels and markers of asthma severity. METHODS This was investigated in a 70 Saudi children with and without asthma and were r...

background : asthma is the most common disease in childhood which is considered as the forerunner of the acute diseases and simply can cause disability among the children. since childhood and adolescence are the most important periods of growth and perfection and incidence of asthma can bring about distortion in this process, the present study done aimed to assess the effect of conducting high ...

background and objectives: studies have shown that fasting can have an impact on the course and severity of chronic diseases. there are a few studies on the association of fasting and asthma. therefore, this study has been conducted with the purpose of examining the effects of fasting on asthma severity and pulmonary functioning tests. methods: 30 patients with asthma who attended a pulmonology...

BACKGROUND Asthma remains an uncontrolled disease. The Comorbidities, particularly obesity, and several other factors have been identified as being individually associated with asthma control, and these factors vary among different countries and between sexes. Studies have suggested that the harmful effects of these factors are greatest among women. The aim of the present study was to identify ...

Global asthma control levels are suboptimal. The influence of regular exercise on asthma control is unclear. We assessed the effects of a 12-week supervised exercise intervention followed by 12 weeks of self-administered exercise on adults with partially controlled asthma (n = 21) and matched controls (n = 15). Assessments were conducted at baseline and week 12 for both the exercise and control...

Pediatric asthma continues to be a difficult burden for 10% of American children and their parents and interferes with lifestyles and economic impacts on the household, state, and national levels. This study aims to evaluate a pediatric asthma summer camp, Camp Superstuff, in its ability to educate children about asthma knowledge and asthma control. I collected preand post-educational test scor...

OBJECTIVE There is evidence that asthma is associated with an increase in psychiatric symptoms and mental disorders. This association can make it difficult to achieve asthma control. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the level of asthma control is associated with anxiety and depression. METHODS A crosssectional study involving 78 patients with confirmed moderate or severe ast...

RATIONALE Chitinases are enzymes that cleave chitin, a polysaccharide contained in many parasites of humans. Recent studies in mouse models of bronchial asthma have shown that acid mammalian chitinase (AMCase) is involved in the pathophysiology of asthma. It acts downstream of interleukin-13; inhibition of AMCase leads to an abrogated T-helper cell 2 inflammation, less bronchial hyperreactivity...

BACKGROUND Asthma control refers to the extent to which the manifestations of asthma have been reduced or eradicated by treatment. Interleukin-13 (IL-13) has a central role in Th2 response and serves as a possible therapeutic target in uncontrolled asthma. Fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) and sputum eosinophils have modest performance in the evaluation of asthma control. OBJECTIVE To a...