Tailored symptom control is essential for patients with endstage COPD....ABSTRACT COPD is a chronic condition with exacerbations during the course of the disease, so it can be difficult to determine when a patient with COPD is approaching the end of their life ... , depression is a feature, but this is often unrecognised. Key words COPD, chronic bronchitis, emphysema ...
Good asthma control is important to prevent acute attacks....ABSTRACT In pregnant women with asthma, it is important to take a multidisciplinary approach ... of asthma therapy. Women should be counselled about the importance of controlling their asthma and advised ... managed. Key words Asthma, pregnancy, labour, beta-2 agonist, corticosteroid Asthma ...
ABSTRACT Asthma affects up to 7 per cent of women of childbearing age and is the most common chronic condition encountered in pregnancy. One-third of women report worsening of their asthma in pregnancy. An association has been suggested between poorly controlled asthma in pregnancy ...
with asthma and food allergy has been postulated and studied before. This study looked specifically at the potential risk of coexisting food allergy and asthma morbidity. The authors investigated the effect of egg ... in asthmatic children. The records of 201 children aged three months to 14 years with known asthma were ...
and COPD. By Miss Margaret Rees...for lung cancer and COPD. However, there were almost no differences among the groups for current smoking ...
study. 7 The most common conditions were chronic lung disease (asthma and COPD), immune suppression ... asthma requiring inhaled or oral steroids (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.4-3.9), or multiple pregnancy (OR 5.2, 95% CI ... oseltamivir capsules or inhaled zanamivir can be taken by pregnant women. However, women with asthma ...
years or below have lower lung function and more chance of asthma in adulthood than those whose menarche...The study included 3,354 women aged 27-57 years who participated in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II. Women with early menarche had a higher rate of asthma symptoms, asthma with bronchial hyperactivity and asthma symptom score than those who experienced menarche later. These results ...
allergic and non-allergic asthma in children. They examined the records of 321 children with asthma who ... -allergic asthma with regard to family history, home tobacco smoke exposure, age of asthma onset, gender, rate of obesity or asthma severity. The authors said that all asthmatic children should undergo allergy testing ...
-years lost (DALYs), diseases can be compared. For example, the burden of COPD (about 3.5 million DALYs ... ), but that of asthma (about 1.4 million DALYs) is smaller. Measurement of BMD by means of DXA describes four groups ...
endstage heart failure, renal failure and COPD, and advanced motor neurone disease (MND). Years ago ... and approaches used in cancer management to other endstage illnesses. When advanced, conditions such as COPD ... , with or without the development of pleural effusions. Those with advanced COPD have frequent exacerbations ...
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