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Asthma is a common condition that causes tightness in the chest, ... disease have improved significantly over the last 3 decades, however severe asthma remains a major concern. Individuals with severe asthma have increased with more disabling symptoms than those ...
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Are you a carer, partner or significant other of someone with severe asthma or COPD? Researchers are seeking volunteers to help understand ... challenges of carers, partners or significant others of people with severe asthma or COPD. They also want to identify what strategies you ...
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... related to breathing that impair health and wellbeing. We study asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), vocal cord ... (LABA) and inhaled corticosteroids in people with more severe disease. Pulmonary rehabilitation that involves exercise training ... of breath, cough, voice disorders and noisy breathing (Source – Severe Asthma Toolkit ). VCD occurs in up to 50% of people with chronic ...
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Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are the two ... chronic respiratory diseases in Australia, with the incidence of asthma among the highest in the world, and COPD a major cause of death. ... to have COPD as non-smokers and their symptoms are likely to be more severe (Source – Health Direct Australia ) - this highlights the ...
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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 ... than the general population and this has been linked to more severe asthma and more frequent viral infections and attacks. Thus, a ...
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Research Phenotype based management of severe persistent asthma ...
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Research Identifying biomarkers that predict severe asthma exacerbations during pregnancy ...
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Adults with asthma are needed to help researchers better understand breathlessness. ... fighting every breath that you have to breathe’. A person with severe asthma on the daily burden Breathlessness is one of the most common and ...
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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 ... for airways inflammation). Bronchiolitis is the most common and severe virus-induced wheezy lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in ...
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One third of the total annual asthma-related health care expenditures may be attributable to asthma related hospitalisations. Even mild asthmatics experience severe exacerbations at a rate of almost one per year and those attacks ... responses directed against RV remains unknown. RV also causes severe lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in infancy and ...
