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Nasal Congestion Can Mean Severe Asthma

Nasal congestion can be a sign of severe asthma, which means that healthcare professionals should be extra vigilant when it comes to nasal complaints. Furthermore, more severe asthma appears to be more common than previously thought, reveals a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy's Krefting Research Centre. Published in the online scientific journal Respiratory Research, the population study included 30,000 randomly selected participants from the west of Sweden and asked questions about different aspects of health...

Inhaled Corticosteroid Use May Increase Risk for Diabetes Mellitus

Patients with respiratory disease using inhaled corticosteroids have modestly increased risks for diabetes onset and progression, which are more pronounced at higher doses.

Smoking status and immunoglobulin E seropositivity to workplace allergens

Being a current smoker is a risk factor for sensitization to workplace allergens especially for those of high molecular weight. Workplace well-being activities may make use of such information for smoking cessation programmes and emphasizing the importance of allergen exposure control. Collaboration between testing laboratories may provide useful datasets for further analysis. (Source: Occupational Medicine)

Asthma and COPD linked to diabetes risk in women

Women with a history of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have an increased risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, show study findings.

"Chronic airway inflammation in asthma or COPD may be involved in the pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes; however, prospective data have been limited," explain Yiqing Song (Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and colleagues.

To investigate further, the team studied data on 38,570 women who participated in the Women's Health Study and who were free of diabetes at study entry in 1991. Of these women, 1808 had COPD, 3368 had asthma, and 32,248 had no history of COPD or asthma at enrolment.

Over a median follow-up period of 12.2 years, 2472 women developed Type 2 diabetes, including 166 who had COPD and 332 who had asthma. ...

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