Asthma

As wildfires continue to spread across the Los Angeles area, residents with asthma and other respiratory diseases face increased risks to their health.

Children with asthma who visited an allergy specialist were 21% less likely to visit the ED or be hospitalized compared with children who did not, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Four out of 10 children and adolescents with severe asthma also experienced high levels of fatigue, with poorer asthma-related quality of life, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Since entering the allergy field, Priya J. Bansal, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, has seen positive changes, including the entry of more women and an increase in innovation.

Among adults in California, those who identified as multiracial had greater lifetime and current asthma prevalences vs. the monoracial populations they shared identities with, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

A prospective chart review suggests a novel asthma phenotype associated with rheumatoid arthritis, with possible common causality, according to results published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Patients with asthma in South Korea faced increased risk for suicide compared with those who did not have asthma, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Among adults with severe eosinophilic asthma and previous biologic use, benralizumab for 48 weeks aided in reducing exacerbations and improving asthma symptom control, according to results published in European Respiratory Journal.

BOSTON — Patients with obesity and asthma may see reductions in exacerbations with biologic treatment, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

The link between antibiotic use in infancy and childhood asthma has been investigated, revealing a higher risk for asthma with antibiotics, but there remains a question of how the microbiome underlies this, according to a press release.