A large amount of data show that AR and asthma are associated both epidemiologically and clinically, introducing the definition of “united airway disease”. The mechanisms underlying such association were initially suggested to start from the nose, including the loss of the protective and homeostatic effects of nasal function, the activation of a na....

Background: The query "are there animals at home?" is usually administered for collecting information on anamnesis. This modality to consider exposure to pet allergens constitutes a potential bias in epidemiological studies and in clinical practice. The aim of our study was to evaluate/quantify different modalities of exposure to cat/dog in inducin....

 Background: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic heart failure (CHF) frequently coexist in older people, reducing patients' quality of life (QoL) and increasing morbidity and mortality. Objective: we studied the feasibility and efficacy of an integrated telerehabilitation home-based programme (Telereab-HBP), 4 months long,....

Objectives: We already know that asthma is associated to osteoporosis/osteopenia and characterized by an accelerated lung function decline. Our study aimed at assessing whether lung function decline and bone mineral density (BMD) deterioration in time were associated in a group of female long-standing asthmatics. We also tried to understand whether....

PMID: 29199967 DOI: 10.18176/jiaci.0196 No abstract available Keywords: Effectiveness; Omalizumab; Pollen sensitized; Real-life; Severe asthma. full article

Objective: It is unknown whether Omalizumab effectiveness changes over the course of time. Our retrospective real-life study tried to analyze whether Omalizumab response may be influenced by treatment duration. Methods: 340 severe asthmatics treated with Omalizumab for different periods of time were recruited. They were subdivided into 4 groups acc....

Background: Asthma may show an accelerated lung function decline. Asthmatics, although having FEV1 and FEV1/VC (and z-scores) higher than the lower limit of normality, may show a significant FEV1 decline when compared to previous measurements. We assessed how many asymptomatic long-standing asthmatics (LSA) with normal lung function showed a signif....

Background: This retrospective study aimed at evaluating long-term effects of Omalizumab in elderly asthmatics in a real-life setting. Methods: 105 consecutive severe asthmatics (GINA step 4-5; mean FEV1% predicted:66 ± 15.7) treated with Omalizumab for at least 1 year (treatment mean duration 35.1 ± 21.7 months) were divided into 3 groups accordin....

Objective: of our study was assessing whether smoking and obesity might affect airways hyperresponsiveness (AHR) differently in younger and older subjects and whether this influence might be due to their different impacts on baseline lung function values at different ages. Methods: 3,903 consecutive adult subjects with normal lung function (1,920 m....

Background: Data about allergic rhinitis in elderly patients with asthma are lacking. Objective: To investigate the presence of rhinitis and the role of sensitization of airborne allergens in elderly patients with asthma. Methods: This was a multicenter cross-sectional study involving subjects at least 65 years old with asthma. Demographic features....

The most important consequences of smoking are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (LC). Although the use of shocking images and warning messages on cigarette packaging is a valid tool of smoke dishabituation, unfortunately, millions of people go on smoking. Our hypotheses is that cigarette packet covers could also be used ....

Affiliations expand PMID: 26004306 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2015.04.011No abstract availablefull article