Obese women more likely to have asthma

Obese women are nearly twice as likely as women of normal weight to have asthma, according to a government study released Wednesday.
Obese women are nearly twice as likely to develop asthma as those who maintain a healthy weight, according to a new study.
But oddly, the same does not hold true for men.....

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Can Acid Reflux Cause Asthma?

Acid reflux and asthma are among the top seven health problems impacting Americans, as per an USA Today article that was published in November, 2014. While approximately 20% of men and women have gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD), over 25 million individuals suffer from asthma. Physicians and other healthcare professionals are also intrigued by recent research that links these two conditions intrinsically.....

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People with Severe Asthma Are Focus of Study to Better Target Treatment of XolairR

A new study developed by researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit in England and managed by the NIHR-funded Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Southampton will investigate whether omalizumab (XolairR), a well-known and frequently used asthma drug, could be better targeted at people who suffer from severe asthma and do not respond sufficiently to high doses of corticosteroid treatment with long-acting reliever medication.....

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