Asthma News

Patients with cancer undergoing treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors did not experience exacerbations in their asthma, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in May.

SAN FRANCISCO — Maternal prepregnancy BMI and race/ethnicity modified associations between maternal lifetime stress and asthma in offspring, according to data presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Asthma and related allergies are sometimes risk factors for CVD, and the two conditions share common mechanisms, according to a review.

SAN FRANCISCO — Dupilumab reduced severe exacerbations and improved prebronchodilator FEV1 in children aged 6 to 11 years with uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma with or without ongoing atopic comorbidities, according to new data.

SAN FRANCISCO — In urban minority children with a high asthma burden, improvement in healthcare utilization rates was tied with better asthma control, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Children from the rural Conghua region of China had lower rates of asthma and atopic disorders than children from urban Hong Kong, indicating a protective effect from an agricultural lifestyle, according to a study published in Allergy.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this video exclusive, Njira L. Lugogo, MD, details a new analysis of the NAVIGATOR study in which more patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma treated with tezepelumab achieved on-treatment clinical response vs. placebo.

John J. Oppenheimer, MD, says that allergists should not be dogmatic about how they approach patient care but rather provide an individualized approach.

Children who were born in socioeconomic tracts that have greater proportions of low-income households, higher population densities and greater poverty experienced higher incidence of asthma, according to study findings.