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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"adult asthma"”.
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Data-driven approach to identifying sub-types of adult asthma from primary care electronic health records
Asthma is increasingly recognised as an umbrella term to describe a number of distinct clinical presentations (phenotypes) with underlying physiological mechanisms (endotypes). Numerous phenotypes and endotypes of asthma have been proposed, both using hypothesis-driven and, more recently, …
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Multiple levels of influence affecting the utilisation of adult asthma services in the private sector in Khartoum
Background Asthma is the third most common cause of hospital visits in Sudan and globally affects more than 300 million people (WHO, 2007) (IUATLD, 2011, 2018). Sudan has a pluralistic health care system with a strong and varied private sector and a three- tiered public health sector (federal, …
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Personalising Inhaled Corticosteroid Dose Response in Persistent Asthma
… (ICS) dose response effects on a variety of asthma outcome measures; with further importance placed on the application of these findings to personalising ICS dosing for the individual asthmatic.<br/><br/>The introduction provides a detailed summary of the current recommendations for the …
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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 …