Asthma News – September 6-10, 2019
Current asthma research, announcements and opportunities, collected and distributed by Michigan Department of Health & Human Services Asthma Program Staff.
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The overall goals of this program are to enhance health care professionals' knowledge and ability to incorporate evidence-based medicine and best practices into their work settings and communities. Topics include: Precision Medicine; Phenotypes, Endotypes & Targeted Therapies; Asthma-COPD Overlap; Inhalation Therapies; Asthma Management in the Elderly & more.
A new study found that levels of PG-D2 were higher in both patients with ACOS and asthma vs patients with COPD, which may be a sign of systemic inflammation in ACOS.
The large population-based cohort study was comprised of German healthcare data, patients aged ≥14 years. Correlation between allergy immunotherapy and reduced likelihood of asthma was strongest in adolescents, followed by young adults between the ages of 18 and 49 years.
A Finnish study reports that the more allergic diseases an individual has, the higher the asthma risk, especially in individuals born after 1940.
In a effort to curb teen vaping, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has banned the sale of flavored nicotine vaping products in stores and online using an emergency rule. The rule also restricts marketers from advertising vaping products as "clean," "safe," "healthy" and "harmless."