… Like adult asthma, childhood asthma is characterized by chronic airway inflammation1,2 and
airway remodeling.Asthma … Survey in elementary school students in western Japan in 2002. …

… asthma and asthma symptoms among Asian subjects. Methods:To determine the prevalences
of asthma and asthma symptoms among Japanese … based study on Japanese adults aged …

… In addition, many children in Japan tend to like the Western diet, containing many meats
and few vegetables, and those unbalanced diets are thought to relate to the recent increase of …

… rural area of under 200 km diameter in western Japan. Of these patients, 112 were … asthma,
as defined by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [Citation25], (2) controlled asthma …

… asthma control and management among Japanese children. Although more than half of the
children with current asthma … use of ICS for asthma in Japan is lower than in the west,27 the …

… of childhood allergic disease in Japan and determine the … the Japanese version of the
International Study of Asthma and … The prevalence in West Japan was higher among 6e8-year-…

… to dust mite allergen and endotoxin with asthma development in Asian regions under … in
Western countries. Although large-scale birth cohort studies have been conducted in Western …

… case series study of 103 consecutive children with atopic type of asthma (aged 2 years to 16
… western Japan in 2002 showed the age of onset as 2.5 years.A single center study in Japan …

… Thus, our prevalence of asthma and allergies is higher than in some other Japanese studies
of junior high school students but lower than in some other Japanese studies. Japanese …

… north north-east to south south-west. The highest incidence was observed in the … asthma
which is probably caused by ragweed. Buckwheat chaff is often used as stuffing for Japanese…