A clinically and functionally relevant definition of an asthma exacerbation will be invaluable in the assessment of the severity of such an event and the streamlining of the steps necessary to ...

Most children with asthma in the UK don’t regularly receive guideline-recommended monitoring; when they do, exacerbations are ...

This is crucial as an asthma exacerbation is a sign of a failure of the treatment plan, and is a marker for future exacerbations and risk of death. However, primary care will need updated systems and ...

acute exacerbations, quality of life and mortality. Asthma is a syndrome consisting of similar phenotypes with characteristic but nonspecific symptoms. COPD is a syndrome akin to asthma but with ...

Notably, drugs like metformin and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have shown promise in reducing asthma exacerbations. These medications appear to work independently of the ...

A new study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; In Practice showed that gestational diabetes ...

A novel asthma burden score that incorporated asthma exacerbations and healthcare ... and American Thoracic Society (ATS) consensus guidelines as the need for high-dose inhaled corticosteroids ...

may significantly improve outcomes during asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. Administering the drug via injection during eosinophilic exacerbations reduced the need ...

Benralizumab can be used for the treatment of acute eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published online Nov. 27 in The ...