Asthma News

Strados Labs announced it received FDA clearance for home use of its smart sensor platform for respiratory health, according to a press release.

A suboptimal maternal diet, defined as pro-inflammatory or low quality, during pregnancy did not play an important role in the development of respiratory diseases in children, researchers reported in European Respiratory Journal.

Benralizumab reduced levels of IgE circulating in the blood among patients with severe eosinophilic asthma but mepolizumab did not, according to a study published in Clinical and Translational Allergy.

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The pro-inflammatory protein IL-3 appeared to regulate the burden of allergic asthma by inducing T regulatory cell response and reducing the proliferation of type 2 innate lymphoid cells, according to a study in Frontiers in Immunology.

Adults with asthma, particularly those with longer duration or non-atopic disease or who take oral corticosteroids, have higher risk for obesity compared with adults without asthma, according to findings published in Thorax.

Although infrequent, high use of short-acting beta 2 agonists was associated with more severe asthma, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

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Fewer children with asthma were hospitalized for exacerbations during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the previous year, although they presented with more severe symptoms, according to a recent study.