BACKGROUND Prenatal factors such as prenatal psychological stress might influence the development of childhood asthma. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We assessed the association between maternal bereavement shortly before and during pregnancy, as a proxy for prenatal stress, and the risk of childhood asthma in the offspring, based on two samples of children 1-4 (n = 426,334) and 7-12 (n =...

AIM While asthma education increases knowledge, it is less clear whether education influences actual patient behavior. To determine whether there are differences between asthma self-management knowledge and the actual behavior of patients during an acute severe asthma attack and to determine which clinical and psychosocial factors are associated with knowledge and behavior. METHODS Validated ...

Sik,?I had a case of death within half an hour of neosalvarsan injection. A Hindu male, aged 30 years, had asthma for the last six years. He was a compounder by occupation. He was given 3 to 4 neosalvarsan injections before for asthma with temporary relief. His heart had no organic disease, nor was he passing albumin or sugar in his urine. Every time he got an asthmatic attack, it lasted for th...

Weekly returns from the Royal College of General Practitioners research unit indicate that the attack rates for acute asthmatic episodes show a summer peak followed by an autumn peak in five out of the eight years studied, a summer peak alone in one year, and no discernible peak in two years. The autumn peaks coincide precisely with the rise in acute bronchitis attack rates, suggesting that aut...

The role played by both lung stretch and lung deflation components of the pulmonary vagus has been studied, in order to throw further light on the changes in lung mechanics which underlie the lung deflation receptor activity and hence the activation of respiration during an asthma attack. The discharge pattern of the lung stretch receptors varies from unit to unit, but also in one and the same ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to demonstrate the importance of the relation between clinical score, pulse oximetry and spirometric tests in an asthma attack. METHODS In this randomized, double blind, observational study, 110 children (age 2-15 years) with an asthma attack who were admitted to emergency room were evaluated. Patient history, physical examination, clinical score and oxygen...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the cost and characterize the management of asthma attacks in primary care. DESIGN Prospective, observational study of 1 year's duration. Setting. 10 physician's offices at 9 primary care centers located in 5 provinces (Asturias, Barcelona, Cadiz, Madrid, and Valencia) of Spain. PARTICIPANTS 10 family physicians who saw 133 consecutive patients with an asthma attack. ...

This study aimed to review model and activities of asthma management including role of pharmacist in asthma control. A systematic review was done during Jul-Aug 2010 from three major databases including Pubmed, the Cochrane Library, and Journals Ovid. Inclusion criteria included publication in English, enrollment of asthma children aged 0-18 years, with book chapters were not included. Informat...

Studies seeking to identify factors predictive of asthma mortality have relied on information obtained from relatives, other close acquaintances, and doctors who cared for the deceased. We wanted to determine whether asthmatics who have suffered a near-fatal asthma attack (NFA) are similar to asthmatics who have died of asthma with respect to important features, because studies of NFA asthmatic...

BACKGROUND A cluster randomised trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of locally adapted practice guidelines and education about paediatric asthma management, delivered to general practitioners (GPs) in small group interactive workshops. METHODS Twenty-nine practices were randomly allocated to one of three study arms. Australian asthma management guidelines were adapted to accomm...