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Researchers present a potential test to predict a baby’s asthma risk in their first year of life and the preventive treatments that can follow.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 13, 2022 Source:By better predicting asthma risk, preventive treatments could bypass disease development Reference:Lipopolysaccharide-induced interferon response networks at birth are predictive of severe viral lower respiratory infections in the first year of life
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Doctors and air pollution experts express growing concern about wildfire smoke and its deleterious health effects as the fires are becoming a more regular occurrence.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 28, 2021 Source:Wildfire smoke: Doctors, air pollution experts forecast worsening health effects
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Another (small) study confirms that face masks do not reduce oxygen saturation during vigorous exercise for healthy individuals. You can get yourself an inexpensive pulse oximeter and prove it to yourself.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 5, 2020 Source: Face masks don’t hinder breathing during exercise, Canadian researchers find
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Overlap between allergy and cold/ COVID -19 symptoms can lead to inaccurate assumptions and unfortunate consequences. @billcarrolltalk and I talk about this issue in the context of Pembroke school staff with COVID-19 who thought they had allergies.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 17, 2020 Source:Pembroke school staff with COVID-19 thought they had allergies
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Lots of questions remain and it is too early to conclude that asthma is not associated with increased risk of hospitalization among Covid-19 patients
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 14, 2020 Source: Does asthma raise Covid-19 risk? Research points to complex connection Reference:ASTHMA NOT ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF HOSPITALIZATION AMONG COVID-19 PATIENTS
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Way too early to conclude that blood type plays a role in COVID-19 outcomes for people with severe respiratory failure
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 19, 2020 Source:Study ties blood type to COVID-19 risk; O may help, A hurt Reference:Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure
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Many methodological confounding factors and alternate hypotheses dampen study authors contention that cleaning product exposure during infancy increases risk of asthma.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 19, 2020 Source:Infants exposed to cleaning supplies more susceptible to asthma, study finds Reference:Association of use of cleaning products with respiratory health in a Canadian birth cohort
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An interesting case history of how an allergy to birds resulted in chronic cough and lung pathology because of down-filled pillows.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 2, 2019 Source:Doctors warn feather bedding can lead to ‘duvet lung’ Reference:Feather duvet lung
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Flu shot can reduce the risk the flu poses to asthmatics.
Health Headlines Commentary for October 21, 2019 Source:Asthma sufferers are putting themselves at risk by not getting free flu jab this winter, study warns