OBJECTIVE Inadequate asthma control may affect asthma resource use and treatment charges, consequently contributing to the growing economic burden of asthma. The study objective was to determine the impact of medication adherence and asthma control on resource use and charges in mild asthmatic patients treated with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A claims database ...

many patients with atopic eczema (ae) would “march” to develop allergic rhinitis (ar) and asthma. physicians, patients and their families often do not appreciate the significance of these diseases as co-morbidities of atopy. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and severity of airway atopies in patients with ae. ar and asthma severity were assessed in consecutive ae patients see...

STUDY OBJECTIVES (1) To assess the prevalence of specific factors considered causative or contributive to asthma in a population of patients seen in a specialized asthma clinic, and to determine whether any of these factors were associated with more severe disease; and (2) to assess the utilization of inhaled steroids by asthma severity in this population and compare it with published guideline...

AIM We hypothesised that chloral hydrate is safe and effective for sedation during dental treatments for children with mild asthma. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of chloral hydrate by measuring changes in heart rate (HR), transcutaneous oxygen saturation, (SpO2), asthma score, behaviour, types and frequency of adverse reactions associated with chloral hydrate were assessed throughout tre...

OBJECTIVES Asthma exacerbation, associated with many risks factors, can reflect management failure. However, little is known about how risk factors are associated with exacerbation, according to asthma severity. We aimed to investigate differences in risk factors in patients with different asthma severity and evaluate whether risk factors differed between frequent exacerbators and patients with...

BACKGROUND Near-fatal asthma (NFA) is characterized by severe asthma attacks usually requiring intensive care unit admission. This phenotype of asthma has been studied mainly in acute conditions. METHODS The aim of our study was to compare the clinical, functional and inflammatory characteristics of NFA patients with mild to severe asthmatics in stable conditions. We recruited 155 asthmatic p...

Method Children with asthma who were followed in our outpatient department of pediatric allergy unit were consecutively recruited. Asthma severity was graded according to NAEPP guidelines. Patients were categorized into two groups; children with intermittent and mild persistent asthma formed Group 1 (mild asthma) whereas children with moderate and severe persistent asthma formed Group 2 (severe...

BACKGROUND There are several clinical variants of severe difficult-to-treat asthma: asthma with persistent airflow limitation, brittle asthma, and fatal asthma; but the differences between the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the disease heterogeneity are unknown. OBJECTIVES The aim was to evaluate the morphological and molecular characteristics of brittle asthma type I and asthma with pers...

In asthma, it is uncertain whether there is an association between degrees of exposure to domestic allergens and asthma severity. The pattern of sensitivity and exposure to common indoor allergens was examined in subjects with differing asthma severity. Sensitivity to house dust mite, dog and cat allergen and exposure to Der p 1, Can f 1 and Fel d 1 were assessed by skin prick tests and settled...