Spacers not associated with better asthma outcomes

Using spacers with pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) to administer inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) was not associated with better outcomes among adolescents and adults with asthma, a retrospective study of 4,504 patients in the United Kingdom found.
Asthma patients often have difficulty inhaling the aerosol from the pMDI at the correct time. Valved holding chambers (spacers) were invented in the 1980s to increase the amount of medication that gets into the lungs. However, the effect of spacers on asthma outcomes has not been well-studied.....

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Inner-city residence linked to pediatric asthma morbidity, not prevalence

Although asthma morbidity is associated with living in poor and urban areas, these risk factors are not connected to prevalence of the condition in children from low-income families.
“Since at least the 1960s, researchers have identified poor-urban areas — the ‘inner city’ — as hotspots of high asthma prevalence and morbidity,” Corrine A. Keet, MD, PhD, associate professor at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote. “However, until recently, there [were] very little data on the national scale to confirm that inner-city residence is in fact associated with either a prevalence of asthma or, among those with asthma, greater asthma morbidity”.....

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Allergy increase triggering asthma symptomns

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - With temperatures warming up across Southern Arizona, allergy season is also heating up.
People with allergies are experiencing sneezing and itchy eyes, but a Tucson allergist says one particular group of people have worse symptoms.
Local allergist from Alvernon Allergy and Asthma, George Makol, says this season has been unique for allergies because warm temperatures came early.....

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