introduct vitamin defici has been link increas risk asthma exacerb objectiv this studi aim compar vitamin status dure period sever asthma exacerb investig vitamin supplement improv asthma control method total 47 asthmat patient 40 healthi subject particip studi serum 25hydroxyvitamin 25 asthma control test act score predict peak expiratori flow rate were evalu period without sever asthma exacerb after provid vitamin supplement patient low vitamin level 3 month result period asthma exacerb preval vitamin defici insuffici 3829 3404 there signific differ level serum 25 without asthma exacerb level were signific higher healthi group serum 25 level signific correl act score moreov vitamin supplement improv asthma control uncontrol asthma group conclus hypovitaminosi common asthmat patient lead caus asthma exacerb serum 25 level correl abil control asthma improve vitamin status might benefit uncontrol asthmat patient

Tadech Boonpiyathad

Teerapol Chantveerawong

Panitan Pradubpongsa

Atik Sangasapaviliya

Serum Vitamin D Levels and Vitamin D Supplement in Adult Patients with Asthma Exacerbation

background the scale psychosoci factor food allergi spsfa base biopsychosoci model health develop valid chile measur interact between psycholog variabl allergi symptom child sought valid scale english speak popul explor it relationship parent qualiti life selfefficaci mental health method parent from general popul who had child clinic diagnosi food allergi complet spsfa valid scale food allergi specif parent qualiti life qol parent selfefficaci general mental health find the spsfa had good intern consist alpha 6186 higher score spsfa signific correl poorer parent qol selfefficaci mental health all predictor explain 57 varianc spsfa score qol biggest predictor discuss the spsfa valid scale use provid holist view impact food allergi famili conjunct healthrel qol measur can use health care practition target care patient evalu psycholog intervent improv food allergi manag

Rebecca C. Knibb

Aaron Cortes

Christopher Barnes

Carol Stalker

Validation of the English Version of the Scale for Psychosocial Factors in Food Allergy and the Relationship with Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Self-Efficacy

background food allergi relat poorer qualiti life qol mental health caregiv mani parent diagnos food allergi child without seek medic care limit research group this studi investig parent qol mental health parent children parentdiagnos food allergi medic diagnos food allergi control group allergi method one hundr fifti parent from general popul complet valid measur qol anxieti depress stress result parent children food allergi report higher stress anxieti depress than control group all parent children report poorer food allergi relat qol compar parent children parent children report poorer general qol compar parent children conclus parent children food allergi have signific poorer mental health compar healthi control irrespect whether food allergi medic diagnos import encourag parent have child medic test food allergi recognis refer psycholog support where need

Gurkiran Birdi

Richard Cooke

Rebecca Knibb

Quality of Life, Stress, and Mental Health in Parents of Children with Parentally Diagnosed Food Allergy Compared to Medically Diagnosed and Healthy Controls

allergic rhiniti preval nigeria though littl inform exist allergen assess clinic featur patient our environ base allerg rhiniti impact asthma aria classif onli patient posit skin prick test spt were recruit seventyfour patient particip studi asthma comorbid were observ 135 the proport sneezersrunn higher than blocker signific more sneezersrunn have persist relationship establish between predomin symptom aeroallergen use studi intermitt mild moder sever were evid 135 311 while persist mild moder sever were seen 203 351 respect hous dust mite allergen yield highest number posit respons 226 follow tree pollen 168 relationship observ between allergen test sever major patient were oligosensit 338 polysensit 351 were signific associ sever most patient present treatment abuja nigeria had moderatesever persist show similar spt sensit pattern countri have similar climat condit sensit pattern were relat aria classif predomin symptom

P. U. Ibekwe

T. S. Ibekwe

Skin Prick Test Analysis in Allergic Rhinitis Patients: A Preliminary Study in Abuja, Nigeria

physician underrecogn undertreat anaphylaxi effectiv intervent need improv physician knowledg compet regard evidencebas anaphylaxi diagnosi manag adam design evalu educ program improv adam pediatr intern medicin emerg medicin resid from two academ medic center anonym questionnair queri particip demograph prior adam clinic experi compet comfort pretest assess baselin knowledg preced 45minut allergistl evidencebas present includ practic epinephrin autoinjector immedi follow posttest followup test assess longterm knowledg retent twelv week later 159 resid particip pretest 152 particip posttest 86 particip followup test there were signific differ specialti site with possibl score 10 mean pretest score 731 150 lower than posttest score 879 129 followup score 817 172 both although particip perceiv confid diagnos manag anaphylaxi improv from baselin followup both particip selfreport clinic experi adam autoinjector use unchang allergistl facetofac educ intervent improv resid shortterm knowledg perceiv confid adam limit clinic experi reinforc contribut observ decreas knowledg

Artemio M. Jongco

Sheila Bina

Robert J. Sporter

Marie A. Cavuoto Petrizzo

Blanka Kaplan

Myriam Kline

Susan J. Schuval

A Simple Allergist-Led Intervention Improves Resident Training in Anaphylaxis

sensitis amaranthus retroflexus pollen veri common tropic subtrop countri studi aim produc recombin allergen ole 1like protein from pollen weed predict crossreact allergen ama 1 other member ole 1like protein famili nucleotid sequenc homolog ama 1 investig the express ama 1 escherichia coli perform use pet21b vector the igebind potenti recombin ama 1 rama 1 evalu immunodetect inhibit assay use 26 patient sera sensitis retroflexus pollen the code sequenc ama 1 cdna indic open read frame 507 encod 168 amino acid residu which belong ole 1like protein famili 26 serum sampl 10 3846 had signific specif ige level rama 1 immunodetect inhibit assay reveal purifi rama 1 might same crude extract ama 1 second allergen from retroflexus pollen identifi member famili ole 1like protein

Payam Morakabati

Mohammad-Ali Assarehzadegan

Gholam Reza Khosravi

Bahareh Akbari

Fatemeh Dousti

Cloning and Expression of Ama r 1, as a Novel Allergen of<i> Amaranthus retroflexus</i> Pollen

the studi conduct studi occurr clinic present allerg fungal rhinosinus afrs character same correl microbiolog profil clinic suspect case fungal rhinosinus frs depend upon clinic present nasal endoscopi radiolog evid were includ relev clinic sampl were collect subject direct microscopi cultur histopatholog examin 35 patient were diagnos have afrs the averag age 284 year rang 1848 year allergic mucin seen all afrs patient fungal hypha were detect onli 20 80 case were posit ige all patient had nasal obstruct follow nasal discharg 628 polyp were seen 95 unilater 4857 bilater 4571 deviat nasal septum seen 2857 greenish yellow secret seen 1714 direct microscopi septat hypha were posit 7142 case 914 case were posit cultur 57 yield mix growth flavus niger prompt clinic suspicion specif sign symptom along time sampl adequ patient specimen optim time process microscopi cultur histopatholog examin must earli diagnosi manag

Ravinder Kaur

S. Lavanya

Nita Khurana

Achal Gulati

Megh S. Dhakad

Allergic Fungal Rhinosinusitis: A Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India

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