Researchers have found that chronic bronchitis is associated with worse clinical outcomes in asthma, particularly among smokers. In the study, published in Respiratory Medicine, 20% of 59 never ...

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1982), pp. 11-16 (6 pages) The population living within a small area around a sulphite pulp factory in Northern Sweden was studied with regard ...

Bronchial hyperresponsiveness may indicate the presence of cough-variant asthma in nonsmokers who have chronic cough, new research shows. This research shows that sensitivity in the bronchial tubes—a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients experienced 336 adverse outcomes before treatment and 178 afterward. Incidence risk ratios for these ...

How is severe asthma defined and who does it affect? Internationally, severe asthma is defined as anybody who is on maximum therapy, which has no measurable side effects, but still have symptoms of ...

The study population in its relationship to passive smoking exposure is described in Table 1. Most participants reporting involuntary tobacco smoke exposure were exposed at home and at the workplace ...

ASTHMA can be defined as a disease of the bronchi producing diffuse, reversible bronchial obstruction. The bronchial tree of patients with asthma is hypersensitive to the effects of dust, cold air, ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Patients with severe asthma experienced ...

THE problem of chronic asthma can be trying to the patient and his family as well as to the physician. All too often, there is an atmosphere of discouragement and despondency on the part of the person ...

We carried out a retrospective cohort study using a self-administered questionnaire to assess the risk of hairdressers to develop asthma and chronic bronchitis. A representative sample of 4433 female ...