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BMJ Open Respir Res
January 2025
Peking University, Beijing, China
Background: Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) have been shown to be associated with frailty, but these findings have not yet reached a consensus. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between CRDs and frailty in the elderly using a nationally representative data from China.
Methods: Data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were analysed, including 3309 frailty-free participants followed for three waves from 2011.
Rev Alerg Mex
December 2024
Master's in economics, HS Pharmacoeconomic Research, Mexico City, Mexico.
Objective: to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of asthma treatment with budesonide/formoterol against other treatment options used at Mexico's National Institute for Respiratory Diseases.
Methods: A complete economic evaluation of cost-effectiveness from a public health perspective, comparing the use of budesonide/formoterol as maintenance therapy with fluticasone/vilanterol in 103 female asthma patients managed at INER between 2015 and 2021.
Results: Average cost per patient was $743.
Clin Rev Allergy Immunol
December 2024
Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Room 3B.71, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA.
Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease that affects millions globally. Although glucocorticoids are a mainstay of asthma treatment, a subset of patients show resistance to these therapies, resulting in poor disease control and increased morbidity. The complex mechanisms underlying steroid-resistant asthma (SRA) involve Th1 and Th17 lymphocyte activity, neutrophil recruitment, and NLRP3 inflammasome activation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFXi Bao Yu Fen Zi Mian Yi Xue Za Zhi
December 2024
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College, Guilin 541000, China *Corresponding author, E-mail:
Non-T2 asthma, also known as non-eosinophilic asthma or low T2 asthma, does not have markers of type 2 inflammation and is often associated with hormone insensitivity and severe asthma. This article reviews the progress in drug therapy for non-T2 asthma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpert Rev Respir Med
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Italy.
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