Physical exercise, systemic inflammation and adult-onset asthma: a 12-year follow-up study.

Physical exercise in treatment of asthma is scarcely studied with no clear exercise guidelines for asthmatics. We aimed to investigate the associations between physical exercise frequency, systemic inflammation and asthma control. This has not been previously studied in adult-onset asthma.

Agreement between self-reported and registered age at asthma diagnosis in Finland.

Introduction: In epidemiological studies, the age at asthma onset is often defined by patients' self-reported age at diagnosis. The reliability of this report might be questioned. Our objective was to evaluate the agreement between self-reported and registered age at asthma diagnosis and assess features contributing to the agreement.

Documentation of comorbidities, lifestyle factors, and asthma management during primary care scheduled asthma contacts.

Systematically assessing asthma during follow-up contacts is important to accomplish comprehensive treatment. No previous long-term studies exist on how comorbidities, lifestyle factors, and asthma management details are documented in scheduled asthma contacts in primary health care (PHC). We showed comorbidities and lifestyle factors were poorly documented in PHC in this real-life, 12-year, follow-up study.

Comorbidity Burden in Severe and Nonsevere Asthma: A Nationwide Observational Study (FINASTHMA).

Background: Asthma, affecting more than 330 million people worldwide, is associated with a high level of morbidity, mortality, and socioeconomic costs.

Objective: In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed the comorbidity burden in patients with severe asthma compared with nonsevere asthma and investigated the role of corticosteroid use on the risk of comorbidities.

Methods: All adults (≥18 y) with a diagnosis of asthma (International Classification of Diseases-10th revision code J45.

Cluster Analysis of Finnish Population-Based Adult-Onset Asthma Patients.

Background: Phenotypes of adult asthma have been identified in previous studies but rarely in population-based settings.

Objective: To identify clusters of adult-onset asthma in a Finnish population-based study on subjects born before 1967.

Methods: We used population-based data from 1350 asthmatics with adult-onset asthma (Adult Asthma in Finland) from Finnish national registers.