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Fernando D. Martinez

Professor of Pediatrics
Verified email at email.arizona.edu
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After asthma: redefining airways diseases

ID Pavord, R Beasley, A Agusti, GP Anderson, E Bel… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Asthma is responsible for considerable global morbidity and health-care
costs. Substantial progress was made against key outcomes such as hospital admissions …

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA): achievements in 10 years and future needs

J Bousquet, HJ Schünemann, B Samolinski… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma represent global health problems for all age groups.
Asthma and rhinitis frequently coexist in the same subjects. Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact …

Tucson children's respiratory study: 1980 to present

LM Taussig, AL Wright, CJ Holberg, M Halonen… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2003 - Elsevier
Continuing Medical Education examination The Tucson Children's Respiratory Study
(TCRS), begun in 1980, has followed 1246 subjects from birth together with their family …

[HTML][HTML] Asthma and wheezing in the first six years of life

FD Martinez, AL Wright, LM Taussig… - … England Journal of …, 1995 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Many young children wheeze during viral respiratory infections, but the
pathogenesis of these episodes and their relation to the development of asthma later in life …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term inhaled corticosteroids in preschool children at high risk for asthma

TW Guilbert, WJ Morgan, RS Zeiger… - … England Journal of …, 2006 - Mass Medical Soc
Background It is unknown whether inhaled corticosteroids can modify the subsequent
development of asthma in preschool children at high risk for asthma. Methods We randomly …

Respiratory syncytial virus in early life and risk of wheeze and allergy by age 13 years

RT Stein, D Sherrill, WJ Morgan, CJ Holberg… - The Lancet, 1999 - thelancet.com
Background The relation between lower respiratory tract illnesses in early life caused by the
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the subsequent development of wheezing and atopy in …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

DG Torgerson, EJ Ampleford, GY Chiu… - Nature …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Asthma is a common disease with a complex risk architecture including both genetic and
environmental factors. We performed a meta-analysis of North American genome-wide …

Association of asthma with serum IgE levels and skin-test reactivity to allergens

B Burrows, FD Martinez, M Halonen… - … England Journal of …, 1989 - Mass Medical Soc
We investigated the association of self-reported asthma or allergic rhinitis with serum IgE
levels and skin-test reactivity to allergens in 2657 subjects in a general-population study …

A clinical index to define risk of asthma in young children with recurrent wheezing

JA Castro-Rodríguez, CJ Holberg… - American journal of …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
Because most cases of asthma begin during the first years of life, identification of young
children at high risk of developing the disease is an important public health priority. We used …

[HTML][HTML] Lung-function trajectories leading to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

P Lange, B Celli, A Agustí, G Boje Jensen… - … England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is thought to result from an
accelerated decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) over time. Yet it is …