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 ...

Introduction Asthma is now one of the most common long-term conditions in the UK. It is therefore important to develop a comprehensive appreciation of the healthcare and societal costs in order to ...

Objectives Care gaps in asthma may be highly prevalent but are poorly characterised. We sought to prospectively measure adherence to key evidence-based adult asthma practices in primary care, and ...

Children with intermittent asthma and persistent asthma are not at increased risk of developing COPD. When compared with the recent follow-up of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey, ...

Asthma is a common respiratory disease in modern society. However, people are rarely aware of the symptoms of asthma because the early stage of asthma is similar to that of the common cold (e.g., ...

Mild intermittent asthma is characterized by few asthma attacks and having symptoms fewer than twice per week. People with mild persistent asthma can have symptoms up to six times per week and it ...

In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched key concepts related to employment, income, and asthma outcomes using Medline and Embase for studies published between January 1, 2010 and ...

Surprisingly, instead of a reduction, certain immune cells associated with asthma-driven inflammation actually increased in number. “This suggests that biologics might not attack the root of the ...

Intermittent fasting also promotes weight loss, often without intentional calorie restriction. The fasting period leads to a reduction in insulin, allowing the body to shift toward burning fat for ...

More information: Lorenz Wirth, et al. High-Dimensional Analysis of Type 2 Lymphocyte Dynamics During Mepolizumab or Dupilumab Treatment in Severe Asthma, Allergy (2025). DOI: 10.1111/all.16633 ...

Biological drugs have improved the lives of many people with severe asthma. However, a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that some immune cells with high inflammatory potential ...