Children with both atopic dermatitis and food allergy have stratum corneum abnormalities that distinguish them from other atopic dermatitis endotypes and children without atopic disease.
A model of care for COPD consisting of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation program, home medicines review, and support for smoking cessation has not demonstrated superiority over usual care.
Normal physical examinations do not demonstrate sufficient diagnostic power for pulmonary hypertension.
It is important to select patients with significant hyperinflation and a low attenuation area on emphysema score when planning for endobronchial coil therapy.
Increasing door-to-antibiotic time for emergency department patients with clinical sepsis is associated with an hour-by-hour linear increase in 1-year mortality.
Researchers found asthma and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to be associated, regardless of allergies or pollutants, including smoking. However, smoking was found to be a harbinger for RA.
There is a slight association between maternal asthma and autism spectrum disorder in children.
Influenza vaccine efficacy, between November 23, 2018 and February 2, 2019, was 47% overall and 61% for young children.
In patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, high baseline right atrial pressure, left heart disease, and pulmonary veno-occlusive disease or pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis are valuable predictors of pulmonary edema.
Use of rapid polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostic tests for MRSA significantly reduced the use of vancomycin and linezolid in patients who were mechanically ventilated with suspected pneumonia at risk for MRSA.
