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Species | Rajesh KumarSummaryAffiliation: Children's Memorial Hospital Country: USA Publications
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African ancestry, early life exposures, and respiratory morbidity in early childhoodR Kumar
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Clin Exp Allergy 42:265-74. 2012..Racial disparities persist in early childhood wheezing and cannot be completely explained by known risk factors...
Epidemiology and risk factors for the development of food allergyRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Pediatr Ann 37:552-8. 2008- Prenatal factors and the development of asthmaRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 20:682-7. 2008..There is increasing evidence that both prenatal and perinatal events influence both allergic diseases and early-life respiratory morbidity... - A community-based study of tobacco smoke exposure among inner-city children with asthma in ChicagoRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 122:754-759.e1. 2008..Little is known about the level of tobacco exposure and the factors that influence exposure in children with persistent asthma... - Gestational diabetes, atopic dermatitis, and allergen sensitization in early childhoodRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill 60614, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 124:1031-8.e1-4. 2009..The relationship between the prenatal environment, maternal-fetal interaction, and allergic disease in the offspring remains understudied... 
Prematurity, chorioamnionitis, and the development of recurrent wheezing: a prospective birth cohort studyRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 121:878-84.e6. 2008..Prematurity (< 37 weeks) has been inconsistently associated with asthma and wheezing. Chorioamnionitis may promote both prematurity and inflammatory pathways in infants' airways...- Genetic ancestry in lung-function predictionsRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children s Plaza, Box 60, Chicago IL 60614, USA
N Engl J Med 363:321-30. 2010.... - Race, ancestry, and development of food-allergen sensitization in early childhoodRajesh Kumar
aDivision of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
Pediatrics 128:e821-9. 2011..We examined whether the risk of food-allergen sensitization varied according to self-identified race or genetic ancestry... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy, prematurity and recurrent wheezing in early childhoodRachel G Robison
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 47:666-73. 2012..Prenatal maternal smoking and prematurity independently affect wheezing and asthma in childhood... - Gene polymorphisms, breast-feeding, and development of food sensitization in early childhoodXiumei Hong
Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children s Memorial Hospital and Children s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 128:374-81.e2. 2011..The effect of breast-feeding on the development of allergic disease is uncertain. There are no data that show whether this relationship varies by individual genotypes... - Does genetic regulation of IgE begin in utero? Evidence from T(H)1/T(H)2 gene polymorphisms and cord blood total IgEXiumei Hong
Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children s Memorial Hospital and Children s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Ill 60614 3394, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 126:1059-67, 1067.e1. 2010..In contrast with numerous genetic studies of total serum IgE in children and adults, limited genetic studies on CBIgE have been conducted... - Association of elevated plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 levels with diminished lung function in patients with asthmaSeong Cho
Division of Allergy Immunology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 106:371-7. 2011..We previously reported that plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) was upregulated in human asthmatic airways and promotes airway fibrosis in an allergen-challenged murine model of asthma... - Adiposity, serum lipid levels, and allergic sensitization in Chinese men and womenFengxiu Ouyang
Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children s Memorial Hospital and Children s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 123:940-8.e10. 2009..Obesity and allergic diseases have increased dramatically in recent decades. Although adiposity has been associated with asthma, associations with allergic sensitization have been inconsistent... - Age and gender specific lung function predictive equations provide similar predictions for both a twin population and a general population from age 6 through adolescenceYunxian Yu
Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children s Memorial Hospital and Children s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 42:631-9. 2007..We sought to evaluate this in late childhood and adolescent subjects... - Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome and the PHOX2B gene: a model of respiratory and autonomic dysregulationPallavi P Patwari
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Respir Physiol Neurobiol 173:322-35. 2010..The study of CCHS, with collaboration between physician-scientists and basic scientists, offers a rare opportunity to investigate control of breathing within the complex physiological network of the ANS... - Further replication studies of the EVE Consortium meta-analysis identifies 2 asthma risk loci in European AmericansRachel A Myers
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 130:1294-301. 2012..Genome-wide association studies of asthma have implicated many genetic risk factors, with well-replicated associations at approximately 10 loci that account for only a small proportion of the genetic risk... - The effect of prenatal and postnatal dietary exposures on childhood development of atopic diseaseRachel Robison
Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 10:139-44. 2010..Prenatal and early life dietary factors may influence asthma and allergic disease development. We review recent studies and consensus statements regarding the effects of prenatal/early life dietary exposures on atopic disease... - Cord blood biomarkers of the fetal inflammatory responseKaren Mestan
Division of Neonatology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 22:379-87. 2009..From a large panel of immune biomarkers, we seek to identify cord blood markers that are most strongly associated with the fetal inflammatory response (FIR), a specific placental lesion associated with serious neonatal complications... - The prevalence, severity, and distribution of childhood food allergy in the United StatesRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Smith Child Health Research Program, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60640, USA
Pediatrics 128:e9-17. 2011..The goal of this study was to better estimate the prevalence and severity of childhood food allergy in the United States... - Chapter 10: Pediatric asthma: principles and treatmentRachel G Robison
Division of Allergy Immunology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Allergy Asthma Proc 33:S32-5. 2012..Montelukast is approved for children ≥12 months old and is often used for its ease of daily oral dosing. Long-acting beta(2)-adrenergic agonists should not be used as monotherapy (i.e., should only be used with ICS)... - Bronchodilator responses in Chinese children from asthma index families and the general populationRajesh Kumar
Division of Allergy, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60612-0064, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 117:1257-63. 2006..CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Because BDR can be affected by multiple factors, interpretation of clinical or research findings on BDR needs to take these factors into consideration... - The wheezing infant: diagnosis and treatmentRajesh Kumar
Children's Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children's Plaza, Chicago, IL 60614-3394, USA
Pediatr Ann 32:30-6. 2003 - An african-specific functional polymorphism in KCNMB1 shows sex-specific association with asthma severityMax A Seibold
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 2911, USA
Hum Mol Genet 17:2681-90. 2008..Female asthmatics may be insulated from the deleterious effects of the 818T allele by estrogen-mediated upregulation in BK channel activity... - Integrated management of childhood illness strategy: opportunities and challengesRajesh Kumar
Indian J Public Health 47:3-6. 2003 - Seroepidemiological study of toxoplasmosis in different sections of population of Union Territory of ChandigarhBalvinder Mohan
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160 012
J Commun Dis 34:15-22. 2002.... - A community-based rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease cohort: twelve-year experienceRajesh Kumar
Department of Community Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
Indian Heart J 54:54-8. 2002.... - Relation between birthweight and blood pressure among 7-8 year old rural children in IndiaRajesh Kumar
Department of Community Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Int J Epidemiol 33:87-91. 2004..The ideal approach for avoiding selection bias is to conduct a prospective cohort study with minimal loss during follow-up. Therefore, the relationship of birthweight with blood pressure was examined in a cohort born during 1992-1993... - Pediatric asthma: principles and treatmentAaron T Donnell
Northwestern University, Department of Medicine, USA
Allergy Asthma Proc 25:S23-5. 2004 - High prevalence of bacteriuria in pregnancy and its screening methods in north IndiaSutapa Bandyopadhyay
Department of Community Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012
J Indian Med Assoc 103:259-62, 266. 2005..Syndromic management of cases on the basis of score card is helpful in resource constraint areas. This may be combined with microscopic examination of urine to entail rational use of antibiotics... - A study of ocular infections amongst primary school children in DelhiRajesh Kumar
Deptt of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi
J Commun Dis 36:121-6. 2004..There was a significant rising trend of ocular infection with increase in age. A significant association was found between ocular infections and religion but the association with per capita income was not significant... - Syndromic management of vaginal discharge and pelvic inflammatory disease among women in a rural community of Haryana, India: agreement of symptoms enquiry with clinical diagnosisArun Kumar Aggarwal
Department of Community Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160 012
J Commun Dis 36:1-11. 2004..20-0.36). The chances of over treatment for vaginal discharge and pelvic inflammatory disease were only 16% and 15% respectively. However, history based syndromic protocols need revision. Proposed protocol is discussed in this paper... - Bleomycin induced flagellate pigmentationRajesh Kumar
Department of Detmatology and Venereology, Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Mumbai 400 008, India
Indian Pediatr 43:74-5. 2006 - Trends in HIV-1 in young adults in south India from 2000 to 2004: a prevalence studyRajesh Kumar
School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Lancet 367:1164-72. 2006..Expansion of peer-based condom and education programmes for sex workers remains a top priority to control HIV-1 in India... - Asthma burden in a citywide, diverse sample of elementary schoolchildren in ChicagoMadeleine U Shalowitz
Section for Child and Family Health Studies, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Ambul Pediatr 7:271-7. 2007..We hypothesized that considering possible asthma would give a more complete picture of race/ethnic disparities in pediatric asthma... - Trends in HIV incidence in India from 2000 to 2007Paul Arora
Lancet 372:289-90. 2008 - Chronic lung disease in neonates: emerging problem in IndiaAnil Narang
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160 012, India
Indian Pediatr 39:158-62. 2002