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Asthma

About 20 million people in America suffer from asthma, a chronic disease that affects one’s airways. The prevalence of asthma has been increasing since the early 1980s across all age, sex and racial groups, according to the National Center for Environmental Health. Our researchers examine asthma’s causes, its treatment, and its interactions with other diseases and conditions.

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The Population-Based Effectiveness in Asthma and Lung Diseases (PEAL) Network

This project will create a new infrastructure to accelerate comparative effectiveness research in asthma and other lung diseases.  We will form the Population-Based Effectiveness in Asthma and Lung Diseases (PEAL) Network by aligning and linking computerized data from five health care systems with diverse structural and demographic characteristics.
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Principal Investigator: Fung, Vicki

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Genes-Environments and Admixture in Latino Asthmatics (GALA-2)

Funder: Sandler Family Foundation
Principal Investigator: Brigino-Buenaventura, Emerita

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Physical and Social Environmental Factors in Adult Asthma

This study analyzes the cumulative risk of combined physical environmental and social environmental factors that affect asthma outcomes, giving particular emphasis to relationships that might be amenable to intervention/secondary-tertiary prevention strategies designed to improve outcomes.
Funder: Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences
Principal Investigator: Iribarren, Carlos

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Asthma and the Risk of Anaphylaxis

This study aims to define the incidence of anaphylaxis among adults and adolescents with asthma; define whether anaphylaxis is more common in asthma than in a matched control population; and elucidate risk factors for anaphylaxis among adults and adolescents with asthma.  
Funder: Genentech
Principal Investigator: Iribarren, Carlos

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Better Asthma Outcomes: Lowering Tobacco Smoke Exposure

This project tests the hypothesis that an ETS intervention will be associated with decreased asthma crisis care utilization, lower ETS exposure and improvements in secondary disease outcomes at follow-up when compared with usual medical care. 
Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Principal Investigator: Quesenberry, Charles

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Maternal Exposure to Magnetic Fields During Pregnancy in Relation to the Risk of Asthma in Offspring

Li, D. K.; Chen, H.; Odouli, R.;
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med  
Aug 1 2011
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Ethnicity and risk of hospitalization for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Tran, H. N.; Siu, S.; Iribarren, C.; Udaltsova, N.; Klatsky, A. L.;
Annals of Epidemiology  21 (8): 615-22
Aug 2011
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Asthma and the prospective risk of anaphylactic shock and other allergy diagnoses in a large integrated health care delivery system

Iribarren, C.; Tolstykh, I. V.; Miller, M. K.; Eisner, M. D.;
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol   104 (5): 371-7
May 2010
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Risk factors for death in adults with severe asthma

Omachi, T. A.; Iribarren, C.; Sarkar, U.; Tolstykh, I.; Yelin, E. H.; Katz, P. P.; Blanc, P. D.; Eisner, M. D.;
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol   101 (2): 130-6
Aug 2008
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The impact of generic-only drug benefits on patients' use of inhaled corticosteroids in a Medicare population with asthma

Fung, V.; Tager, I. B.; Brand, R.; Newhouse, J. P.; Hsu, J.;
BMC Health Serv Res  8151
 2008
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Genome-wide screen for asthma in Puerto Ricans: evidence for association with 5q23 region

Choudhry, S.; Taub, M.; Mei, R.; Rodriguez-Santana, J.; Rodriguez-Cintron, W.; Shriver, M. D.; Ziv, E.; Risch, N. J.; Burchard, E. G.;
Hum Genet   123 (5): 455-68
Jun 2008
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BMI and health status among adults with asthma

Vortmann, M.; Eisner, M. D.;
Obesity (Silver Spring)   16 (1): 146-52
Jan 2008
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Effect of race on asthma management and outcomes in a large, integrated managed care organization

Erickson, S. E.; Iribarren, C.; Tolstykh, I. V.; Blanc, P. D.; Eisner, M. D.;
Arch Intern Med   167 (17): 1846-52
Sep 24 2007
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The influence of cigarette smoking on adult asthma outcomes

Eisner, M. D.; Iribarren, C.;
Nicotine Tob Res   9 (1): 53-6
Jan 2007
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Asthma drug use and the development of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS)

Harrold, L. R.; Patterson, M. K.; Andrade, S. E.; Dube, T.; Go, A. S.; Buist, A. S.; Chan, K. A.; Weller, P. F.; Wechsler, M. E.; Yood, R. A.; Davis, K. J.; Platt, R.; Walker, A. M.;
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf   16 (6): 620-6
Jun 2007
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The influence of perceived control of asthma on health outcomes

Calfee, C. S.; Katz, P. P.; Yelin, E. H.; Iribarren, C.; Eisner, M. D.;
Chest   130 (5): 1312-8
Nov 2006
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The influence of perceived control of asthma on health outcomes

Calfee, C. S.; Katz, P. P.; Yelin, E. H.; Iribarren, C.; Eisner, M. D.;
Chest   130 (5): 1312-8
Nov 2006
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Risk factors for work disability in severe adult asthma

Eisner, M. D.; Yelin, E. H.; Katz, P. P.; Lactao, G.; Iribarren, C.; Blanc, P. D.;
Am J Med   119 (10): 884-91
Oct 2006
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Risk factors for work disability in severe adult asthma

Eisner, M. D.; Yelin, E. H.; Katz, P. P.; Lactao, G.; Iribarren, C.; Blanc, P. D.;
Am J Med   119 (10): 884-91
Oct 2006
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Ancestry-environment interactions and asthma risk among Puerto Ricans

Choudhry, S.; Burchard, E. G.; Borrell, L. N.; Tang, H.; Gomez, I.; Naqvi, M.; Nazario, S.; Torres, A.; Casal, J.; Martinez-Cruzado, J. C.; Ziv, E.; Avila, P. C.; Rodriguez-Cintron, W.; Risch, N. J.;
Am J Respir Crit Care Med   174 (10): 1088-93
Nov 15 2006
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