As the number of people with allergies grows worldwide, scientists are trying to work out precisely how and why these ...

Evidence suggests that early exposure to family members, food, germs, dust, dirt, pollen, and pets shapes our immune response ...

Background: There is conflicting information about the relationship between asthma and socioeconomic status, with different studies reporting no, positive, or inverse associations. Most of these ...

A large international study found that early-life exposure to phthalates, common chemicals in plastics, is modestly ...

Individual expectations about one's health can influence future condition and speed of the progression of a disease: in fact, ...

Individual expectations about one's health can influence him/her future condition and the speed of the progression of a ...

Depemokimab significantly reduces asthma exacerbations, benefiting patients regardless of their baseline asthma control levels. A biologics license application for depemokimab is currently being ...

On May 6, 2025, the Global Initiative For Asthma (GINA) published the 2025 update to their Global Strategy for Asthma ...

All comparisons between individuals with controlled and uncontrolled asthma as assessed by the GINA questionnaire and the C-ACT/ACT are shown in Table 2. When we compared the GINA controlled asthma ...

For an ACT score of 20, the Youden index reached the maximum (0.658); accordingly, we used an ACT score of 20 as the optimal cutpoint for screening patients with controlled asthma.

Two questionnaires were used in this study, namely, the ACT and Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ). The ACT consisted of five items; for each item, five options were provided pertaining to asthma ...

Childhood asthma is not a disqualifying factor for becoming an L.A County firefighter and shouldn’t be for Pine Grove either, Hahn wrote in her motion.