Interasma Newsletter
Interasma Newsletter View this email in your browser Dear colleagues and friends,TheWorld Congress of Asthma is approaching and we are excited waiting for the days in which we’ll join a superb Congress in Mexico.The Scientific Programme is amazing, with three simultaneous tracks: the pediatric one, asthma for adults, and a third one for specialists. Mexico is an […]
World Congress of Asthma 2014 – Scientific Programme
Preliminary Programme
Associations between environmental exposures and asthma control and exacerbations in young children: a systematic review
BMJ Open 2014;4:e003827 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003827 Smita Dick1, Emma Doust2, Hilary Cowie2, Jon G Ayres3, Steve Turner1 +Author Affiliations: 1Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, 2Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK, 3Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence toDr Steve Turner; s.w.turner@abdn.ac.uk ABSTRACT Objective To complete a systematic review of the literature describing associations between all environmental exposures and asthma symptoms and exacerbations in […]
Other Publications
ALLERGOLOGY JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY ALLERGY PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY CLINICAL REVIEWS IN ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY ANNALS OF ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY CURRENT OPINION IN ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND ALLERGY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA JOURNAL OF ASTHMA CURRENT ALLERGY AND ASTHMA […]
Pregnant moms’ colds may cause asthma in offspring
Research indicates that the more colds and other viral infections a woman has during pregnancy, the more likely her child is to have asthma. The more colds and other viral infections a woman has during pregnancy, the more likely her child is to have asthma, researchers report. The new study included 513 pregnant women in Germany and their 526 […]
Evaluation of the Modified Asthma Predictive Index in High-Risk Preschool Children
Background: Prediction of subsequent school-age asthma during the preschool years has proven challenging. Objective To confirm in a post hoc analysis the predictive ability of the modified Asthma Predictive Index (mAPI) in a high-risk cohort and a theoretical unselected population. We also tested a potential mAPI modification with a 2-wheezing episode requirement (m2API) in the same […]
Interasma website
After 10 years of growth and permanence in our old website, Interasma has created a new website accessing new technologies, with full integration to social media to provide more and better information to our members and to the medical community and patients interested in bronchial asthma globally. Enjoy our renovated web site and new sections: […]
Inhaled Corticosteroids and the Risk of Pneumonia in people with Asthma: A case control study
Abstract: Background: In clinical trials the use of inhaled corticosteroids is associated with an increased risk of pneumonia in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but whether the same is true for people with asthma is not known. Methods: Using primary care data from The Health Improvement Network we identified people with asthma and from this […]
Cost-effectiveness of primary prevention of paediatric asthma: a decision-analytic model
Abstract – Background: Many children stand to benefit from being asthma-free for life with primary (i.e., prenatally started) prevention addressing one environmental exposure in a unifaceted (UF) approach or at least two in a multifaceted (MF) approach. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of primary prevention programmes for Dutch children in a decision-analytic framework. Methods A decision-analytic tree […]
Electronic health record-based assessment of oral corticosteroid use in a population of primary care patients with asthma
Abstract – Background: Oral corticosteroid prescriptions are often used in clinical studies as an indicator of asthma exacerbations. However, there is rarely the ability to link a prescription to its associated diagnosis. The objective of this study was to characterize patterns of oral corticosteroid prescription orders for asthma patients using an electronic health record database, which […]