Gender diVerences in airway behaviour and in the clinical manifestations of airway disease
occur throughout the human life span and are related to biological as well as sociocultural …

Asthmatics respond with reversible airway narrowing when stimulated in ways that have no
effect on non‐asthmatic persons. Studies conducted at the turn of this century established …

OBJECTIVE: To calculate the direct and indirect costs of asthma in Canada. DESIGN: Cost-
of-illness study. SETTING: Canada. PATIENTS: All Canadians receiving inpatient or …

Rationale: Factors predicting the development of wheeze may differ between sexes and
between childhood and adolescence. Methods: A New Zealand birth cohort of 1,037 …

Attendances at the emergency departments of the nine acute care hospitals serving the
Vancouver region, with a population of just under a million people, were recorded from July …

Abstract Background and Methods. The majority of asthma-related deaths occur outside the
hospital, and therefore the exact factors leading to the terminal event are difficult to …

To investigate the influence of indoor air quality on respiratory health, a questionnaire-based
study of 17,962 Canadian schoolchildren in kindergarten through grade 2 was carried out in …

Abstract A randomized field trial of a child-centered model of training for self-management of
chronic illnesses was conducted of 355 Spanish-speaking school-aged children, between 6 …

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence and severity of asthma in an adolescent
population by sex and race. METHODS: Cross-sectional, population-based survey of school …

ContextRelapses of acute asthma following emergency department (ED) discharge can be
reduced with systemic corticosteroid treatment. However, whether inhaled corticosteroids …