intermittency variability and reversibility of asthma

... Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Asthma, and Natural History of Asthma 11 Key Points: Definition, Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Asthma, and Natural History of Asthma ... Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Asthma, and Natural History of Asthma; Section 3—The Four Components of Asthma Management; Section 4—Managing Asthma Long Term; and Section 5—Managing Exacerbations of Asthma ... Pathogenesis of Asthma, and Natural History of Asthma SECTION 2, DEFINITION, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF ASTHMA, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF ASTHMA KEY POINTS: DEFINITION, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... white squares and mixed stand ones by black points; for pure and mixed stands, the centres of gravity of ellipsoids are equal to the mean of the sample coordinates; PS = pure beech stand; MS = mixed ... thick OL and OF horizons, a low pHH20 at cm and a high percentage of organic carbon at cm (negative part); from (ii) samples with a thin OL and OF, a high pHH20 at cm and low percentage of organic ... (i) the variability and heterogeneity of humus form are correlated with the spatial pattern of stand canopy, (ii) humus forms are more active within mixed stand and (iii) the improvement of decomposition...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... rhinitis, and eczema.26 Shamssain and Shamsian, assessing 3,000 adolescents aged 13 to 14 years in Sunderland, England, verified the concomitance of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in 5.1% of subjects.19 ... influence the estimation of prevalence rates of asthma and asthma- like symptoms Eur Respir J 1995;8:53s 13 Pearce N, Weiland S, Keil U, et al Self-reported prevalence of asthma symptoms in children ... al Questionnaire study of effect of sex and age on the prevalence of wheeze and asthma in adolescence BMJ 1998;316:1945–6 Solé D, Camelo-Nunes IC, Wandalsen GF, et al Is asthma in Brazilian children...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... diagnosis of asthma (OR 2.04), wheeze, and asthma medication use (OR 2.83) but not for AHR, atopy, or airflow obstruction.23 Despite more symptoms consistent with asthma and use of more asthma medications ... relationship and understand the causal mechanisms of obesity and asthma association From a public health standpoint, these studies have substantial implications If asthma were added to the list of conditions ... unit of increased BMI Table Demographics of Total Evaluated and Included Patients Characteristics Number of subjects evaluated Number of subjects included Number of subjects excluded Reasons of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... parental history of asthma and 25.0% had a parental history of atopy at the time of interview 9.3% of participants had no siblings Premature birth occurred for 9.3% of children and 8.6% required ... effect on early-onset asthma (OR, 2.01; 95% Table Effects of environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS) on subcategories of asthma Asthma Treatments for asthma Ever asthma Active asthma Medication ... education, parental history of asthma, parental history of atopy, gestational age, and community † Early-onset: asthma diagnosed ≦ yr of age ‡ Late-onset: asthma diagnosed > yr of age *Average cigarettes...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:20

... in adolescents and children, and least frequent in the adults and elderly Adolescents had a mean of 0.58 active trips per day, 26% had at least one active trip per day, and 43% of all trips less ... PAT for groups by race, level of household income and regions and Northeast and in areas with higher levels of urbanization had greater seasonal variation Children and adolescents were more likely ... showers, change rooms and secure bicycle storage areas Winter maintenance of sidewalks and bike paths and lanes Yang et al International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... Economic significance and incidence of CymMV and ORSV 1.1.2 Host range and symptomatoglogy 1.1.3 Mode of transmission 1.1.4 Molecular structure and composition 1.2 Sequence Variability in the CP ... Regeneration of transgenic orchids 11 1.4 Synergism in CymMV and ORSV 12 1.5 Complementation of MP and/ or CP genes 14 1.6 Molecular Biology of PVX 15 1.7 Molecular Biology of TMV 18 1.8 Objectives of this ... of (A) singly and (B) doubly infected leaves of N benthamiana plants 131 xiii Figure 6.3 Northern blot analysis of ORSV in total RNA from leaves of (A) singly and (B) doubly infected leaves of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:19

... southwestern part of Sweden (figure 1), the most populated part of the county of Scania The study area contains 840 000 of Sweden's total population of 8.9 million, and has a population density of 170 inhabitants ... diagnosis, and 21% of those with asthma diagnosis had chronic bronchitis symptoms Total n Asthma diagnosis n (%) Asthma diagnosis Asthma symptoms COPD diagnosis Chronic bronchitis symptoms Asthma ... discussion Although asthma and COPD have many risk factors in common and often coexist in clinical settings, and there is some evidence that asthma may be a risk factor for the development of COPD [40],...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... for child and adolescent acceptance of asthma, to measure one aspect of quality of life believed to influence one's overall quality of life Adolescents with asthma identified level of participation ... development of the scale: Level of participation in self-selected activities offers a measure of one aspect of quality of life http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/37 Level of symptom control through use of ... Adolescent process of coming to accept asthma: a phenomenological study Journal of Asthma 1997, 34(6):547-561 Kintner EK: Testing of the school-aged child and adolescent acceptance of asthma model...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Findings of this study provide evidence of internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the PLA as a measure of one aspect of quality of life for children and adolescents with asthma ... child and adolescent acceptance of asthma model Ph.d.: THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA; 1996 Kintner EK: Lack of relationship between acceptance and knowledge of asthma in school-age children and early ... evaluation of face and content validity; and preliminary cross-group comparison of scores based on sex, race, socioeconomic groupings, and severity of illness ratings Face and content validity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... and frequency, velocity, single and double support times, and step width and length, as well as parameters such as range -of- motion of a particular joint, peak values, and time of occurrence of ... spread of a sample of gait curves and to avoid fallacious under or overestimation The intuitive and perhaps most popular way of estimating curve variability is the calculation of the standard ... curves for the standard deviation bands and 90% Sensitivity estimated prediction bands Sensitivity curves for the standard deviation bands and 90% bootstrap estimated prediction bands Here, each...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... standardized with a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10 to reflect general US population norms for children The demographics of caregivers of children with uncontrolled versus controlled asthma ... controlled asthma, and that 2) caregivers of children whose asthma was not well controlled have a decreased QOL and lower work productivity compared to caregivers of children with controlled asthma ... had to be at least 18 years of age and living in the US, and the caregiver’s child was required to be from to 12 years of age, have a doctor’s diagnosis of asthma, and have met predefined criteria...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... (PCS and MCS) and the respiratory symptoms were described by means and Voll-Aanerud et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:107 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/107 standard deviations and ... comorbidity, and study centre Stratified analyses were performed with respect to diagnosis (neither asthma nor COPD; and asthma and/ or COPD) Respiratory symptoms often occur together, causing problems of ... and HRQoL, both in subjects with and without asthma and/ or COPD (data not shown) Voll-Aanerud et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:107 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/107 Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Determination of polymorphism was obtained using a marked standard of known molecular weight (50–350 bp) Data were collected by e-Seq software (DNA Sequencing and Analysis Software) Genetic variability ... ratio for pairs of populations, and the logarithm of distances expressed in units of km, did not show the typical pattern of isolation by distance and did not suggest any evidence of a relationship ... unit of Taq polymerase (Promega) in 1X Promega buffer, 0.2 µM of each primer, 0.2 mM of dNTP mix and approximately 20 ng of template DNA, adding deionised water to a total reaction volume of 20...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... Inter-tree variability: effect of geographical origin, effect of tree, effect of radial and height position Figure illustrates the mean mass losses of the seventeen trees tested with Antrodia sp and ... height 3.3 Possible use of colour as an indicator of durability – study of intra-tree colour Table III shows the mean, standard variation and coefficient of variation of colour parameters The ... and the PhD Our thanks also go to Christine Baudassé, Alba Zaremsky and Sang Song (CIRAD Forest Products Programme, Montpellier) Variability of durability and colour of Dicorynia guianensis and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... proposed, before and after a teaching course on radioanatomy and radiotherapy techniques of lung cancer irradiation We evaluated the influence of the teaching course on the variability of the residents’ ... residents and physicians for OV and KI was 0.06 (p = 0.047) and 0.05 (p = 0.05) No significant difference was noted for the VR, CDV and ADV The global OV and KI indices (mean before and after ... Delineation variations are a source of error in the planning and execution of radiotherapy Regarding the treatment planning consequences of the variability of the delineation, we found a difference...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... a National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPPII) asthma severity score of Step with neither a firm diagnosis of asthma nor an exclusion of the diagnosis of asthma Step of NAEPPII ... predicted maximum at and minutes of 82.1% ± 5.6 and 86.6% ± 8.9 on Day and of 81.5% ± 6.7 and 89.9% ± 6.5 on Day in adults (p = NS) and 81.9% ± 5.7 and 85.9% ± 10.3 on Day and 81.8% ± 6.3 and 86.7% ± ... without other clinical signs and symptoms of asthma [9-11] EIB is often the first indication of asthma [12] so it is important to diagnose and then treat underlying asthma recognized by exercise...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... Definition of multi-symptom asthma To be considered having multi-symptom asthma, a subject was required to report physician-diagnosed asthma and asthma medication and attacks of shortness of breath and ... multi-symptom asthma When defining multi-symptom asthma, we included individuals reporting physician diagnosis of asthma, use of asthma medication, recurrent wheeze and attacks of shortness of breath, and ... combinations: non -asthma versus fewer-symptom asthma, non -asthma versus multi-symptom asthma and fewer-symptom asthma versus multisymptom asthma Results Relationship between multi-symptom asthma and nighttime...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... Allergy and Asthma Chest 2007, 132:1007-1014 37 Loza MJ, Foster S, Peters SP, Penn RB: Interactive effects of steroids and [beta]-agonists on accumulation of type T cells Journal of Allergy and Clinical ... desquamation and denudation of the epithelium are significant features of asthma [28] Although the causes of epithelial injury can be multiple, one source that is likely to be important is the release of ... airways [18] Inhalation of allergen is a common trigger of asthma and instigates an immediate release of mediators from mast cells that have the capacity to activate a number of pathways that lead...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... In order to increase our understanding of the mechanism and potential function of asthma susceptibility genes identified in published GWAS and “classic” asthma candidate genes, we evaluated their ... patterns of asthma susceptibility genes identified via a comprehensive literature search of candidate gene studies and GWAS published to date We found strong and consistent evidence of differential ... Institute of Child Health and Human Development supported tissue databases and microarray profiled as previously described [14,15] Creation of the tissue repository was approved by the University of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22