New Understanding of Asthma Development: Transmission of Respiratory Viruses in Utero

Apr. 18, 2013 — The most common cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), can be transferred during pregnancy to an unborn baby, according to Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital research published online this week in the journal PLOS ONE......

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Asthma initiative has impact on health care use

ANN ARBOR—Children living in areas where there was wide-ranging and active support for improving outcomes for their chronic asthma were hospitalized less and made fewer visits to the emergency room, when compared with those in other communities......

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Health Literacy Linked to Better Asthma Control

Baseline health literacy is associated with better quality of life and improved disease control in asthma patients, researchers found.
For every point higher that they scored on a measure of health-related print literacy, patients had better asthma-related quality of life and asthma control, as indicated by a 0.63-unit increase (P=0.006) in the Mini-Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire and a 0.52-point improvement (P=0.005) in the Asthma Control Questionnaire, according to Andrea Apter, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues......

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