Use of digital media for the education of health professionals in the treatment of childhood asthma

Jornal de Pediatria

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Original Article

• Helena F. Velasco^a, b, , , 
• Catiane Z. Cabral^a, 
• Paula P. Pinheiro^b, 
• Rita de Cassia S. Azambuja^a,
• Luciano S. Vitola^b, 
• Márcia Rosa da Costa^a, 
• Sérgio L. Amantéa^a, b

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doi:10.1016/j.jped.2014.07.007

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Accuracy of the days’ supply and the number of refills allowed recorded in Québec prescription claims databases for inhaled corticosteroids

• BMJ Open 2014;4:e005903 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005903

• Epidemiology

1. Lucie Blais1,2,3, 
2. Anne Vilain1, 
3. Fatima-Zohra Kettani1,2, 
4. Amélie Forget1,2,
5. Geneviève Lalonde1, 
6. Marie-France Beauchesne1,3,4,5, 
7. Francine M Ducharme6,7,
8. Catherine Lemière1,2

+¹Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
²Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
³Endowment Pharmaceutical Chair AstraZeneca in Respiratory Health, Montréal, Québec, Canada
⁴Pharmacy Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
⁵Centre de Recherche Clinique Étienne-Le Bel, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
⁶Clinical Research and Knowledge Transfer Unit on Childhood Asthma, Research Centre, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Canada
⁷Department of Pediatrics, University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Correspondence to Dr Lucie Blais; lucie.blais@umontreal.ca

Objectives and hypotheses Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is a major issue in asthma. This study aimed to estimate the accuracy of the days’ supply and number of refills allowed, variables recorded in Québec claims databases and used to estimate adherence, and to develop correction factors, if required. We hypothesised that the accuracy of the days’ supply for ICS would be low whereas the accuracy of the number of refills allowed would be high.

Allergic diseases and asthma in the family predict the persistence and onset-age of asthma: a prospective cohort study

Research

Elina MS Paaso¹², Maritta S Jaakkola¹²³⁵, Aino K Rantala¹⁴, Timo T Hugg¹⁴⁵ and Jouni JK Jaakkola^1245*

Respiratory Research 2014, 15:152  doi:10.1186/s12931-014-0152-8

Published: 27 November 2014

Abstract

Background

Family history of asthma and other allergic diseases have been linked to the risk of childhood asthma previously, but little is known about their effect on the age-of-onset and persistency of asthma until young adulthood.

Food allergy in small children carries a risk of essential fatty acid deficiency, as detected by elevated serum mead acid proportion of total fatty acids

Research

Marita Paassilta, Elina Kuusela, Matti Korppi, Riina Lemponen, Minna Kaila and Seppo T Nikkari

Lipids in Health and Disease 2014, 13:180  doi:10.1186/1476-511X-13-180

Abstract (provisional)

Background

Elevated serum Mead acid as a proportion of total fatty acids is an indirect marker of a deficiency of essential fatty acids (EFA). The aim of the study was to evaluate the symptoms and nutrition of food-allergic children with elevated or normal serum Mead acid.

Antibiotics in fetal and early life and subsequent childhood asthma: nationwide population based study with sibling analysis

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g6979 (Published 28 November 2014)Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g6979

1. Anne K Örtqvist, doctoral candidate1, 
2. Cecilia Lundholm, statistician1, 
3. Helle Kieler, associate professor2, 
4. Jonas F Ludvigsson, professor13, 
5. Tove Fall, associate professor4, 
6. Weimin Ye, professor1, 
7. Catarina Almqvist, professor15

Author affiliations

1. Correspondence to: A K Örtqvist Anne.ortqvist@ki.se

• Accepted 30 October 2014

Serum 25(OH)D concentrations and atopic diseases at age 10: results from the GINIplus and LISAplus birth cohort studies

Research article

Nina Wawro¹, Joachim Heinrich², Elisabeth Thiering²³, Jürgen Kratzsch⁴, Beate Schaaf⁵,Barbara Hoffmann⁶, Irina Lehmann⁷, Carl-Peter Bauer⁸, Sibylle Koletzko⁹, Andrea von Berg¹⁰, Dietrich Berdel¹⁰ and Jakob Linseisen^1*

BMC Pediatrics 2014, 14:286  doi:10.1186/s12887-014-0286-3