Over the past 20 years, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has regularly published and
annually updated a global strategy for asthma management and prevention that has formed …

The benefits of drug therapy for asthma have been well established, but adherence to
treatment is poor, and this might be associated with an increased risk of asthma …

Parents who choose to smoke are possibly not aware of, or deny, the negative effects of
passive smoking on their offspring. This review summarises a wide range of effects of …

Background: The assessment of asthma control is pivotal to the evaluation of treatment
response in individuals and in clinical trials. Previously, asthma control, severity, and …

Abstract The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal
life until adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes …

Abstract The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal
life until adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes …

We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide
asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of …

Symptoms of atopic asthma often disappear at puberty. However, asthmatic subjects in
clinical remission will frequently have a relapse later in life. The aim of this study was to …

Breath tests cover the fraction of nitric oxide in expired gas (F ENO), volatile organic
compounds (VOCs), variables in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) and other …

Rationale: The role of air pollution exposure in the development of asthma, allergies, and
related symptoms remains unclear, due in part to the limited number of prospective cohort …