Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the small and large conducting airway mucosa characterised by Th2 cell immunity.
Atopy and asthma are commonly initiated during early life, and there is increasing interest in the development of preventive treatments for at-risk c…
This study investigates the impact of measuring adherence and providing feedback on medication usage by children with unstable asthma.
Using data on 2868 children born in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we examined the association between changes in family...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of different macro-environments on asthma genotype-phenotype associations in 2 geographically separated p…
A recently proposed method for classifying preschool wheeze is to describe it as either episodic (viral) wheeze or multiple trigger wheeze.
Anti-viral innate immune responses may be impaired in asthma, although the mechanisms are not well understood.
One of the major challenges in health studies with a spatial dimension is to produce valid and meaningful geographical representations of risk.
Early immunological influences on asthma development: opportunities for early intervention
Airways hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is one of the major clinical features of allergic airways disease including allergic asthma