Javier Mallol

..Interventions based on small associations may have the potential for a large public health benefit...

..However, the oxidative status in the lungs of children with post infectious bronchiolitis obliterans is unknown...

..A study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of RW in infants during their first year of life in affluent and non-affluent localities...

..This study investigates the distribution pattern of asthma symptom prevalence in Latin American children aged 13-14 years...

..Inhaled corticosteroids are used to treat infants with troublesome asthma-like symptoms but their effect on the lung function of these young patients is controversial...

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..This study was undertaken to validate a questionnaire for the International Study on the Prevalence of Wheezing in Infants (Estudio Internacional de Sibilancias en Lactantes, EISL)...

..To test the hypothesis that consuming Mediterranean diet and using olive oil for cooking/dressing salads during pregnancy might be associated with less wheezing during the first year of the offspring's life...

..In developed countries, the prevalence of asthma in children has significantly increased in the last decades. However, there is no information about the trends of asthma in Latin America...

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..We conclude that salbutamol plus 200 microg bid of BDP inhaled from an MDI with a spacer for 8 weeks is no better than salbutamol alone for decreasing recurrent wheezing in small children under age 24 months...

..This study strongly suggests that potent and more effective campaigns against tobacco smoking should be implemented in developing countries, where active tobacco smoking is dramatically increasing in children...

..However, the prevalence of wheezing in the last 12 months and asthma ever was quite similar between adolescents and parents, suggesting that these questions are crucial for assessing asthma in epidemiological studies...

..05 ml Pasteur-Mérieux strain. However, the differences in TST size induced by diverse BCG vaccination modalities may not reflect the quality of the immunologically induced response in terms of TB protection...

..Although thousands of infants under the age of 12 months die each year from pneumonia in Latin America, little is known regarding the true occurrence of pneumonia, wheezing and other related respiratory illnesses in this age group...

..However, there is little information on the effectiveness of once-daily budesonide, administered through a metered dose inhaler (MDI) plus spacer, on asthma symptoms and pulmonary function in asthmatic children...

..Recurrent wheezing (RW) plays an important role in the morbidity and mortality of children during the first year of life in developing regions and its actual incidence in those areas is virtually unknown...

..This relationship and the interpretation of both written and audiovisual presentation of symptoms requires further study in order to better predict asthma...

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..9-2.5); FEF(50) = 3.7 % (3.3-4.1); FEF(75) = 5.9 % (5.2-6.6) and FEF25-75 = 3.3 % (2.9-3.7). This study demonstrates the high reproducibility of the spirometric parameters measured with the technique of raised lung volume in infants...

..A simple and convenient questionnaire confirmed by physical examination produce an accurate tool to asses the prevalence of asthma symptoms in infants...

..We studied 6-7-year-old children from Phase Three of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) programme to investigate the association between paracetamol consumption and asthma...

..The increases were more pronounced in the older age group, suggesting that environmental influences on the development of allergy may not be limited to early childhood...

..There are extensive data on the prevalence of childhood asthma world-wide but the relationships between asthma symptom prevalence, mortality and hospital admissions have not been investigated...