BACKGROUND Under-diagnosis and under-treatment of childhood asthma were investigated in France using data collected during the 6 Cities Study, the French contribution to the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood. METHODS 7,781 schoolchildren aged between 9 and 10 years underwent a medical visit including skin prick tests to common allergens and exercise test for Exercise-In...

A standard exercise test was performed on defined groups of normal and asthmatic personnel • and recruits with a history of childhood asthma. Normal servicemen had a mean Exercise Lability Index (ELl) of 7.81, and we took an ELl of over 15 to be abnormal. By this criterion we found that 91.7% of service personnel with asthma who could not pass th e army Basic Fitness Test (BFT) were abnormal. C...

BACKGROUND Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB), which describes acute airway narrowing that occurs as a result of exercise, is associated with eosinophilic airway inflammation, bronchial hyperresponsiveness. The forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) is the most commonly used spirometric test in the diagnosis of EIB in exercise challenge in asthma. Other parameters such as forced ...

The pathophysiology of depression is related to neurobiological changes that occur in the monoamine system, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, neurogenesis system and the neuroimmune system. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the research of the effects of exercise on brain function, with a special focus on its effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), cortisol a...

Clinical symptoms can hardly differentiate COPD and asthma bronchiale [1-8]. Significant smoking anamnesis can support COPD origin, but some asthmatic patients are smoker, also [19]. Most of the asthmatic patients have paroxismatic dyspnoic wheezing in the early morning or after exercise [1-9]. In COPD, the dyspnoea is progressive and it is manifested during exercise at first. Hey fever with ob...

Clinical symptoms can hardly differentiate COPD and asthma bronchiale [1-8]. Significant smoking anamnesis can support COPD origin, but some asthmatic patients are smoker, also [19]. Most of the asthmatic patients have paroxismatic dyspnoic wheezing in the early morning or after exercise [1-9]. In COPD, the dyspnoea is progressive and it is manifested during exercise at first. Hey fever with ob...

The short-term protective effect on exercise-induced asthma (EIA) and the duration of action of formoterol, given by metered dose aerosol at a dose of 24 micrograms, were compared with salbutamol (200 micrograms) and placebo in twelve asthmatic EIA-positive patients in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, three period cross-over study. On each treatment day the patients were given one of the dru...

BACKGROUND Despite widely available data about childhood asthma, there are limited data about the prevalence of asthma among young adults in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms among medical students in the city of Sari in Northern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms was studied using a standa...

Methods In this cross sectional study were included 115 asthmatic children and adolescents 9 to 19 years old and their mothers. For the children, asthma severity, PA level and exercise induced bronchospasm (EIB) were evaluated. The mothers were investigated on their beliefs about PA in non-asthmatic and asthmatic children, if they imposed restrictions to their children PA, perception of exercis...