Asthma News

PHOENIX — Certain phenotypes are associated with difficult-to-control asthma in urban children, which may be characterized by specific early-life factors and patterns of nasal epithelial cell gene expression, according to a speaker here.

Abdominal obesity is a risk factor for COPD and asthma among premenopausal and postmenopausal women in South Korea, according to study findings published in Menopause.

House dust mite sublingual immunotherapy tablets reduced inhaled corticosteroid use among patients with mild to moderate allergic asthma, according to a systematic review in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Sex and gender can influence the pathogenesis, clinical course, diagnosis, treatment and management of asthma, according to a review published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

One-fifth of patients with chronic medical conditions who received two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had insufficient antibody levels at least 14 days after the second dose, researchers reported in Chest.

As climate change continues to impact the planet, events such as flooding and extreme heat will exacerbate symptoms for patients with allergies and asthma.

The development of asthma is more likely in patients with persistent or severe atopic dermatitis, according to a study.

As climate change impacts patients with allergies and asthma, experts from the CDC offered recommendations and resources for allergists and immunologists to improve care in a report published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

There is growing attention on the link between airways disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

Simplification from twice-daily to once-daily dosing of inhaled corticosteroids for asthma correlated with better medication adherence in children, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.