BACKGROUND Despite increasing evidence for an association between allergy and psychological disorders in patients with allergic rhinitis (AR), the relationship between comorbid AR and asthma is not clear. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of concomitant asthma, gender, and sensitization to a particular aeroallergen category on the psychological status of AR patients. M...

Asthma is a common disease in young children and is associated with significant morbidity and an increasing prevalence over time. Early childhood wheezing and asthma are heterogeneous disorders; thus identifying phenotypes of asthma remains a goal to identify high-risk children who might benefit from specific therapies or secondary prevention interventions. The typical pattern of illness in pre...

allergic rhinitis is the most common cause of allergic diseases. the recent guidelines of allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (aria) group, classified it to intermittent (less than 4 days per week and for less than 4 weeks) and persistent (more than 4 days per week or lasting more than 4 weeks regardless of the number of days per week). the present study evaluates the patients with aria ...

FOR Evidence for the inflammatory basis of asthma comes from bronchial biopsies, which show inflammation of the mucosa even in patients with mild intermittent asthma. Mucosal oedema and excess mucus production cause reduction in the lumen and obstruction to airflow. Bronchospasm occurs as the natural “foreign body” response to irritation caused by inflammation, the bronchi become hyperactive an...

© Copyright The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology • The Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease http://e-aair.org Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of an airway characterized by recurrent attacks of airflow obstruction that is at least partially reversible. This definition of implies that asthma can be completely reversible. Therefore, most pat...

OBJECTIVES Many asthmatics take therapy intermittently because of their scarce compliance. It is not known if this is effective in controlling and slowing down the lung function decline in asthma. Our aim was to compare the effect of a regular treatment and an intermittent one on some clinical aspects and on the forced expiratory volume 1 (FEV1) decline in 165 persistent asthmatics with FEV1 > ...

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Bronchial asthma is a common problem with enormous medical and economics impacts. It is an inflammatory disease of the airways associated with intermittent episodes of bronchospasm. Asthma is not uncommon in the elderly patients. Prevalence of asthma is similar in older and younger adults. Asthma in the elderly patient is underdiagnosed because of false perceptions by both patient and physician...

OBJECTIVES To determine the level and cost of unscheduled health care resource use in adults and children across all asthma symptom severities in Latin America. METHODS The level and cost of health care resource use were analysed for 2074 patients with asthma included in the Asthma Insights and Reality in Latin America (AIRLA) survey from 10 Latin American countries. Health care resource use ...

RESULTS. Almost 600 patients were randomized to each treatment arm. Almost 75% of patients had a least 1 episode of asthma, with almost half of patients culminating in an exacerbation. No significant difference was seen between groups in the number of episodes leading to asthma exacerbations. Daily montelukast reduced symptoms over the 12-day treatment period of asthma episodes compared with pl...