Acute asthma in adults: a review

GJ Rodrigo, C Rodrigo, JB Hall - Chest, 2004 - Elsevier
All patients with asthma are at risk of having exacerbations. Hospitalizations and emergency
department (ED) visits account for a large proportion of the health-care cost burden of …

Complexity of chronic asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: implications for risk assessment, and disease progression and control

U Frey, B Suki - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Although assessment of asthma control is important to guide treatment, it is difficult since the
temporal pattern and risk of exacerbations are often unpredictable. In this Review, we …

An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials …

HK Reddel, DR Taylor, ED Bateman… - American journal of …, 2009 - atsjournals.org
Background: The assessment of asthma control is pivotal to the evaluation of treatment
response in individuals and in clinical trials. Previously, asthma control, severity, and …

The Saudi Initiative for Asthma-2021 Update: Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma in adults and children

MS Al-Moamary, SA Alhaider, AA Alangari… - Annals of thoracic …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The Saudi Initiative for Asthma 2021 (SINA-2021) is the fifth version of asthma
guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma for adults and children, which is …

Sudden death and use of stimulant medications in youths

MS Gould, BT Walsh, JL Munfakh… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors sought to determine whether a significant association exists between
the use of stimulants and the rare event of sudden unexplained death in children and …

Epidemiology of respiratory viruses in patients hospitalized with near-fatal asthma, acute exacerbations of asthma, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

WC Tan, X Xiang, D Qiu, TP Ng, SF Lam… - The American journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: We compared the prevalence and spectrum of common respiratory viruses
among patients with near-fatal asthma, acute exacerbations of asthma, or chronic …

Risk of severe asthma episodes predicted from fluctuation analysis of airway function

U Frey, T Brodbeck, A Majumdar, D Robin Taylor… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Asthma is an increasing health problem worldwide, but the long-term temporal pattern of
clinical symptoms is not understood and predicting asthma episodes is not generally …

Factors accounting for asthma variability: achieving optimal symptom control for individual patients

BP Yawn - Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 2008 - nature.com
Asthma is a variable disease, and various factors can lead to an increase (or decrease) in
asthma symptoms and the level of asthma control. Pub Med was searched for recent articles …

Alexithymia: a relevant psychological variable in near-fatal asthma

J Serrano, V Plaza, B Sureda… - European …, 2006 - publications.ersnet.org
Alexithymia is a psychological trait characterised by difficulty in perceiving and expressing
emotions and body sensations. Failure to perceive dyspnoea could lead alexithymic …

The Saudi Initiative for Asthma-2016 update: Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma in adults and children

MS Al-Moamary, SA Alhaider, MM Idrees… - Annals of Thoracic …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
This is an updated guideline for the diagnosis and management of asthma, developed by
the Saudi Initiative for Asthma (SINA) group, a subsidiary of the Saudi Thoracic Society. The …