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Research The Growing into Asthma Study: Wheezing prevalance and markers of airways inflammation in preschoolers born to mothers in asthma exacerbations in pregnancy ...
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease, affecting 10% of ... disease is characterised by intermittent acute episodes of worsening asthma, often called asthma ‘attacks’. Prevention of asthma attacks is a key goal of ...
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Do you have Asthma? Researchers are seeking volunteers to examine how exercise training may improve asthma. Why is the research being done? It is well known that exercise ... has numerous health benefits; however, the effects of exercise on asthma symptoms and inflammation in the lungs is not clear. Previous ...
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Asthma affects more than 300 million people worldwide, with Australian’s suffering more from asthma (one in ten) than almost any other people in the world. Asthma is a major burden on Australia’s health care system and the ...
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Asthma affects one in eight children in Australia and is the leading ... health care cost of more than 24 billion Australian dollars in 2015. Asthma is the most common medical complication in pregnancy and is strongly associated with the development of childhood asthma. ntion strategy for asthma. An effect of asthma in pregnancy on ...
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Research Areas : Pregnancy, asthma, women’s health, paediatrics Investigators : Dr Megan Jensen, ... health Purpose of the Study: We’ve found that women with asthma have low levels of certain nutrients in their blood during ... In order to develop nutritional advice for pregnant women with asthma, we need to study this observation further. Participant Tasks : ...
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Adults with asthma are needed to help researchers better understand breathlessness. ... every breath that you have to breathe’. A person with severe asthma on the daily burden Breathlessness is one of the most common and troubling symptoms that people with asthma report. Breathlessness is a disturbing symptom that may have many ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
What are your research interests? My research interests focus on asthma in pregnant women. My research is trialling new approaches to the management and treatment of asthma during pregnancy, with a focus on reducing the rate of asthma exacerbations in pregnancy, and improving health outcomes for the ...
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... causes exacerbations of chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma and COPD the involvement of virus infected airway (epithelial) ... viruses play a crucial role in chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma. The relationship between virus and man is fascinating and ... of this relationship, particularly in the context of diseases such as asthma, and this is what inspired me to get into research. What would be ...
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Asthma affects up to 10% of Australians and is the most common chronic disease complication during pregnancy. Poor asthma control during pregnancy has been shown to be associated with ... double-blind, parallel-group,randomised controlled trial the Managing Asthma in Pregnancy (MAP) study to determine the efficacy of ...