Asthma News - December 19, 2024

Current asthma research, announcements and opportunities, collected and distributed by Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) Asthma Program Staff. Sign up to receive weekly-ish news emails.

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The MI Adverse Child Experiences Initiative (MI ACE): Implementing Trauma or ACE Screening in Your Organization: Recommendations and Considerations ~ Jan. 13 @ 10 AM EST

This webinar will help you learn strategies to implement trauma or ACE screening in your organization. There is a strong link between ACEs and asthma. MIACE also offers 1.0 CME for participating in the Introduction to ACEs and Trauma-Informed Care virtual learning activity.

October 11 & 25 Asthma Educator Sharing Times – Recordings & Resources Available!

Oct. 11: SMART @ School (Karla Stoermer-Grossman); Self-Care Strategies for Asthma Educators (John Dowling); When to Refer to an Asthma Specialist (Karen Meyerson)
Oct. 25: Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction and Asthma: A Speech-Language Pathology Perspective (Dr. Jeff Searl); GINA 2024: What’s New? (Karla Stoermer-Grossman); Asthma Resource Update (Kathleen Slonager)

Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS): Health Literacy Fact Sheets

These fact sheets define health literacy, highlight its important connection to health equity, and outline ways to measure and improve limited health literacy through written communications, patient-provider dialogue, and enhanced organizational practices. Also check out the Improving Health Literacy for More Equitable Health Outcomes infographic.

Cost-related non-adherence to medications among adults with asthma in the USA, 2011–2022

From 2011-2022, the prevalence of cost-related non-adherence decreased from 23.2% to 13.1%. However, about one in six adults with asthma (17.8%) reported they did not adhere to their asthma medications in the previous year because of cost.

Opioid use disorder’s impact on asthma hospitalizations

Concomitant opioid use disorder has no impact on mortality in asthma hospitalizations, but patients with asthma with opioid use disorder have worse secondary outcomes compared with those without opioid use disorder.

Variability in forced expiratory volume in 1 s in children with symptomatically well-controlled asthma

Researchers suggest, given the wide limits of agreement of paired FEV1 measurements in symptomatically well-controlled children, that asthma treatment should primarily be guided by symptoms and not by a change in spirometry.