Asthma is a heterogenous disease, and its prevalence and severity are different in males
versus females through various ages. As children, boys have an increased prevalence of …

Rationale: Workplace inhalational hazards remain common worldwide, even though they
are ameliorable. Previous American Thoracic Society documents have assessed the …

Asthma is one of the most common diseases in the world, resulting in a substantial burden of
disease. Although rates of deaths due to asthma worldwide have reduced greatly over the …

Asthma and allergy are common conditions with complex etiologies involving both genetic
and environmental contributions. Recent genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) and …

Methods This paper arose from an extensive literature review undertaken in developing the
Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study, a multicentre national …

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With an aging global population, chronic respiratory diseases are becoming a more
prominent cause of death and disability. Age-standardised death rates from chronic …

Pesticides have been widely used to control pest and pest-related diseases in agriculture,
fishery, forestry and the food industry. In this review, we identify a number of respiratory …

Background Short-term exposure to air pollution has adverse effects among patients with
asthma, but whether long-term exposure to air pollution is a cause of adult-onset asthma is …

Background Although women with severe non-allergic asthma may represent a substantial
proportion of adults with asthma in clinical practice, gender differences in the incidence of …