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Asthma control in London secondary school children.
(2017-12)
OBJECTIVE: The asthma control test (ACT) is a validated tool for assessing control in asthmatic children aged 12 years and older. Using the ACT, we sought to assess asthma control and knowledge in London secondary school ...
Theory-based self-management intervention to improve adolescents' asthma control: a cluster randomised controlled trial protocol.
(2019-04-23)
INTRODUCTION: Asthma-related morbidity and mortality in the UK is higher than elsewhere in Europe. Although the reasons for this are largely unclear, one explanation could be a higher prevalence of poorly controlled asthma ...
European Respiratory Society statement for defining respiratory exacerbations in children and adolescents with bronchiectasis for clinical trials.
(2022-11)
Bronchiectasis is being diagnosed increasingly in children and adolescents. Recurrent respiratory exacerbations are common in children and adolescents with this chronic pulmonary disorder. Respiratory exacerbations are ...
A cross-country qualitative analysis of teachers' perceptions of asthma care in sub-Saharan Africa.
(2023-09-23)
Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease among school-going adolescents worldwide. However, the burden of severe asthma is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to explore teachers' perceptions of ...
DNA methylation profiles between airway epithelium and proxy tissues in children.
(2017-12)
AIM: Epidemiological studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation in airway disease have largely been conducted using blood or buccal samples. However, given tissue specificity of DNA methylation, these surrogate ...