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Asthma in General practice: risk factors and asthma control.
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Asthma bronchiale im Kindesalter
… der Allergiestatus und die Lungenfunktion von Asthmapatienten nach zehn Jahren verändert haben. Ferner sollte untersucht werden, welche dieser Faktoren den Krankheitsverlauf beeinflussen. Im Rahmen einer retrospektiven Kohortenstudie wurden zunächst im Archiv der Kinderpoliklinik der LMU …
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Entwicklung und Evaluation eines verhaltenstherapeutischen Schulungsprogramms für Patienten mit Asthma bronchiale (Davoser Asthma-Gruppe)
… ausgerichteten Schulungsprogramms für Asthma-Patienten mit hoher Beeinträchtigung in der krankheitsspezifischen Lebensqualität (Davoser Asthma-Gruppe). Das vollständig manualisierte Gruppenprogramm besteht aus einem Curriculum von sechs Schulungseinheiten mit strukturierten Lernzielen, …
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Effort-Independent Asthma Severity Classification
Asthma is an obstructive pulmonary disorder. It impacts the lives of over 24 million individuals in the United States alone, a large segment of which are children. We propose to investigate capnography as a viable diagnostic modality to guide the treatment of asthma as an alternative to the gold …
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Parental instruction regarding appropriate asthma management
… received instruction regarding appropriate asthma management actually experienced improvement in terms of fewer asthmatic attacks, fewer emergency room visits, fewer hospitalizations, less school absenteeism, use of more non-routine medication, and fewer phone calls to the emergency room and …
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Pathway into care for pediatric asthma
… and patient is especially significant to asthma because asthma is a chronic condition that may require management for life. However, there is a gap in the social science literature for studies related to asthma. This thesis presents the way pediatric asthma health care providers and a …
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Roles of Neutrophil Activation in Asthma
… inflammation has been implicated in allergic asthma as well as occupational asthma, which is usually associated with severe phenotype. Autophagy plays crucial roles in innate as well as adaptive immune responses by contributing to the proliferation, activation and biological function of …
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The Association between Adult Self-reported Asthma & Potential Exposures to Asthma Triggers in Virginia Workplaces: An Ecological Study
Introduction: Work-related asthma (WRA) is thought to be the most common occupational lung disease in the U.S., but there is no standard case definition of WRA. Most states, including Virginia, do not require WRA diagnoses to be reported to health departments. At present, there is too little …
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The Effectiveness of Pharmacist Interventions in Improving Asthma Control and Quality of Life in Patients with Difficult Asthma
… national guidelines, the management of difficult asthma remains suboptimal, and there may be opportunities for pharmacists to improve asthma outcomes. This six-month prospective, randomised, open study investigated the effects of pharmaceutical care across primary and secondary care on difficult …
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Investigating Personality Factors in Patients with Asthma
… a consistent association between neuroticism and asthma. This study aims to reinforce this finding and further its scope by looking at all five personality traits and lifetime asthma diagnosis. The current study examined associations between personality traits and lifetime asthma diagnosis in a …
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Paediatric asthma and wheeze: early life origins
… including the important childhood disorders asthma and wheeze. Factors creating a suboptimal early environment may persistently alter the structure and function of the immune and respiratory systems.<br/>This thesis explored the early life origins of paediatric asthma and wheeze in a large, …
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The role of cough in severe asthma
Rationale: <br/>Cough is a common symptom within asthma that is both important and troublesome for patients and has been shown to be associated with a less well controlled disease. However, the role of cough within asthma is not well understood and there is little knowledge as to how cough is …
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Vitamin D and Immunomodulation in Bronchial Asthma
Asthma is one of the most common chronic inflammatory diseases of the airways. The chronic inflammation is associated with airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), airway obstruction and airway remodeling. In asthmatics the airway epithelium produces increased amounts of proinflammatory cytokines …
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COGNITIVE ADAPTATION AND THE SCHOOLAGER WITH ASTHMA.
… Cognitive Adaptation Theory for schoolagers with asthma. In addition, the influence of Taylor's (1983) themes on the children's social behavior was also tested. The three themes of Taylor's (1983) theory included A Search for Meaning, Restoration of Self-Esteem, and Gaining a Sense of …
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Children's representations of asthma : developmental changes and influences on knowledge, asthma control, management and perceptions of quality of life
… of children's illness representations of their asthma and the influence of these representations on knowledge, asthma management , asthma control and perceived quality of life. A sample of 41 asthmatic children and their parents were recruited from GP practices. Children were divided into two …
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Assessing the relationships between household mold exposure and asthma status in children nationwide sampled by the 2003 national asthma survey
… and demographic confounding factors, and asthma in children. Data used in this research was accessed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey, National Asthma Survey. Previous literature has …
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Childhood Asthma Deaths in North Carolina: 1999-2012
Asthma is chronic reversible obstruction of the small- an d medium-sized airways of the lung. It is caused by inflammation of the airway mucosa coupled with spasm of the circumferential smooth muscles that may be triggered by v iral infections, environmental allergens, or other irritants. Early in …
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