Use of a new asthma assessment tool called APGAR leads to improved asthma control and improved patient outcomes in terms of asthma-related emergency, urgent care, and hospital visits, according to a ...

March 19, 2008 (Philadelphia) — The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) has launched Asthma-IQ, a new Web-based tool for the management of patients with asthma at its annual ...

The 2012 GLI race-specific equation failed to detect reduced lung function in 39% of Black children participating in three large cohorts. The 2022 GLI race-neutral equation identified two- to ...

In asthma management, the latest Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines recommend that treatment should be continuously adjusted, driven by the patient’s asthma control status. 1 Although ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NuvoAir’s Asthma Assessment Service uses respiratory physiologists and connected, award-winning home monitoring technology, such as the Air Next spirometer to assess lung ...

One cause of apparently resistant asthma is ‘wrong diagnosis’ – what are the differentials we should be aware of, and how can we distinguish them from true asthma? Resistant asthma is asthma that ...

The update includes new focus on monitoring asthma control as the goal for asthma therapy and distinguishing between classifying asthma severity and monitoring asthma control Emphasis is placed on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A severe asthma clinic reduced health care utilization and symptom severity for pediatric patients, according to ...

Analysis of insurance claims reveals that criteria other than the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) persistent asthma definition can identify more at-risk patients with ...

Among children, asthma is the most common chronic disease, ranking among the top 20 conditions worldwide for disability-adjusted life years in children. It is diagnosed through a procedure called ...

Acute exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonarydisease (COPD) and asthma are potentiallylife-threatening clinical events that may result insubstantial morbidity and mortality. Treatment ofthese ...