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Fragranced consumer products: effects on asthmatic AustraliansMost asthmatics would prefer workplaces, healthcare facilities, and environments that are fragrance-free, which could help reduce adverse effects
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Could home-based FeNO measurements breathe new life into asthma management?Developing a FeNO test that is affordable enough to allow daily measurements, patients will be able to access quantifiable data to assist them to monitor their asthma
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Meta-analysis identifies seven susceptibility loci involved in the atopic marchEczema often precedes the development of asthma in a disease course called the 'atopic march'.
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The mechanism or mechanisms driving atopic asthma initiation: The infant respiratory microbiome moves to center stageAlthough debate surrounding the mechanism or mechanisms governing this causal pathway remains intense, demonstration of the capacity of pretreatment...
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Global allergy forum and second davos declaration 2013 allergy: Barriers to cure - Challenges and actions to be takenThe epidemic increase in the prevalence of allergic disease, which first started in the industrialized countries in the 1960s, may have reached a peak in the...
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Vitamin D deficiency and the lung: Disease initiator or disease modifier?Vitamin D deficiency is a global public health problem and has been associated with an increased incidence and severity of many diseases including diseases...
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The safety and feasibility of the inhaled mannitol challenge test in young childrenMannitol challenge tests are used clinically to diagnose asthma and, in particular, exercise-induced broncoconstriction (EIB) in adults and children above 6...
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State Government boost for The Kids researchThe Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have been awarded five of eight State Government awards designed to help cover the hidden costs of conducting research.
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Effects of human rhinovirus on epithelial barrier integrity and function in children with asthmaThis study demonstrates novel intrinsic differences in tight junctions gene and protein expression between airway epithelial cells of children with and without asthma
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Environmental Factors in Children's Asthma and Respiratory EffectsAsthma is more common in childhood than in adulthood and is more correctly thought of as a syndrome than as a discrete condition.