In this article, we sought to identify whether different early life influences underlie wheeze, asthma, and BHR at 10 years of age. We found that wheeze and asthma at 10 years of age, both defined ...

Asthma and bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR), an asthma-related phenotype, result from many genetic (G) and environmental (E) factors. Passive exposure to tobacco smoke (ETS) in early life is ...

Childhood asthma and current wheeze may be associated with different risk factors than bronchial hyperresponsivenes (BHR), according to a new study. Researchers at the David Hide Asthma & Allergy ...

BHR indicates the speed of airway constriction and inflammation, a hallmark of asthma. Levels of proteins (cytokines) generated during the inflammatory response and of IgE, an antibody produced by ...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the ... together with epithelial cells to cause bronchial hyper-reactivity (BHR) (the tendency of smooth muscle cells in people with asthma to react ...

BHR indicates the speed of airway constriction and inflammation, a hallmark of asthma. Levels of proteins (cytokines) generated during the inflammatory response were also assessed before and after ...

Due to its high positive predictive value (PPV), bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) could be considered as a predictor of cough-variant asthma (CVA) in nonsmoking adults with chronic cough ...

BHR denotes bronchial hyperresponsiveness ... severe disease and those with frequent exacerbations. 2 Patients with Asthma and Signs of Concomitant COPD Given the lack of randomized intervention ...

BHR indicates the speed of airway constriction and inflammation, a hallmark of asthma. Levels of proteins (cytokines) generated during the inflammatory response were also assessed before and after ...

Back to Healio Using omega-3 supplements had no benefit during a 3-week treatment period for participants with asthma ... [bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR)] to mannitol or sputum eosinophil ...

Study Objectives: We sought to identify early life factors ( ie, first 4 years) associated with wheeze, asthma, and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) at age 10 years, comparing their relative ...

BHR indicates the speed of airway constriction and inflammation, a hallmark of asthma. Participants were asked to keep a symptom diary and record their use of inhalers, any unscheduled medical ...