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PLoS One
January 2025
CINTESIS@RISE, MEDCIDS, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
We examined the reliability and validity of the Brief Physical Activity Assessment Tool (BPAAT) when administered by telephone interview compared to in-person administration. We analyzed data from the Epi-asthma study. Adult participants registered in the participating Portuguese primary health care centres (PCC) completed the BPAAT via telephone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Asthma
January 2025
General Practitioner, Independent Scholar, Tehran, Iran.
Objective: Current literature acknowledges the complexity of exacerbation triggers in patients with asthma. We studied the clinical heterogeneity of patients with asthma exacerbation suspected of having pulmonary embolism using cluster analysis and compared the clusters regarding of the risks for pulmonary embolism.
Methods: In a secondary analysis of a dataset from the University of Florida, USA, individuals who experienced asthma exacerbation between June 2011 and October 2018 were included.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Glob
February 2025
School of Biosciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Background: Allergic asthma is a highly prevalent chronic inflammatory disease driven by aeroallergen exposure. In severe asthma, the current standard of care does not fully control disease symptoms, indicating an unmet clinical need. Biologic therapies targeting cytokines IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 have been shown to provide benefits to asthmatic patients over currently existing asthma treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Bras Pneumol
January 2025
. Departamento de Pneumologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia (GO), Brasil.
Objective: The aim of this study was to present epidemiological data on hospitalizations and deaths related to asthma in Brazil over the past 11 years.
Methods: An ecological study was conducted on asthma-related hospitalizations and mortality in Brazil from 2013 to 2023, using data extracted from the Department of Informatics of the Brazilian Unified Health System and the Mortality Information System.
Results: Asthma-related deaths showed an increasing trend during the analyzed period.
PLoS Med
January 2025
Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Orthopedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Background: Cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal disease are among the leading causes of disability in middle-aged and older people. Health and lifestyle factors in youth have known associations with cardiovascular or respiratory disease in adulthood, but largely unknown associations with musculoskeletal disease.
Methods And Findings: We included approximately 40,000 18-year-old Swedish males, who completed their conscription examination in 1969 to 1970, followed up until age of 60 years.
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