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unusual facts about asthma


Terra Linda High School

Rick DeMont, American Gold-medalist, 1972 Summer Olympics, who had his medal revoked due to banned substances discovered in his Asthma medication.


Andrzej Szczeklik

Szczeklik is a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican and Royal College of Physicians in London, UK (honorary member), American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology, European Respiratory Society, International Society of Thrombosis Haemostasis, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Boston Custer

His older brother Nevin became a farmer due to asthma and rheumatism, while George and Tom became military officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Bustamante Hospital for Children

The hospitals deals with General Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Asthma and Respiratory ailments, Nephrology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT), Plastic and Burns, Ophthalmology and more.

Dai Wangshu

After the war, he returned to Shanghai and then Beijing, and died there having accidentally overdosed on the ephedrine he took to control his asthma.

Damian Gorawski

He was named for the 23-men Polish squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals held in Germany, but was subsequently dropped in favor of Bartosz Bosacki having failed medical tests after being diagnosed with severe asthma.

Dutch hypothesis

Genetic association studies that have uncovered the same polymorphisms in people with asthma and COPD provide support for the notion that the two conditions share some biological characteristics; implicated genes include ADAM33, CCL5 and IL17F.

Elijah Muhammad

On January 30, 1975, Muhammad entered Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, suffering from a combination of heart disease, diabetes, bronchitis, and asthma.

Hey Kid, Catch!

A child with asthma tosses his Jerome Bettis Steelers jersey to Bettis himself, who is also an asthma sufferer, after a pick-up football game at Carnegie Mellon University's Gesling Stadium.

Isoprenaline

Isoprenaline (INN) or isoproterenol (USAN, trade names Medihaler-Iso and Isuprel) is a medication used for the treatment of bradycardia (slow heart rate), heart block, and rarely for asthma.

Lebrikizumab

Lebrikizumab (INN) is a humanized monoclonal antibody and an experimental immunosuppresive drug for the treatment of asthma that cannot be adequately controlled with inhalable glucocorticoids.

Leukotriene E4

Increased production and excretion of LTE4 has been linked to several respiratory diseases, and urinary LTE4 levels are increased during severe asthma attacks and are especially high in people with Aspirin-induced asthma, also known as Samter’s Triad or aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD).

Maxair

Pirbuterol, trade name for a pharmaceutical used in the treatment of asthma

Propylene glycol

According to a 2010 study by Karlstad University, the concentrations of PGEs (counted as the sum of propylene glycol and glycol ethers) in indoor air, particularly bedroom air, has been linked to increased risk of developing numerous respiratory and immune disorders in children, including asthma, hay fever, eczema, and allergies, with increased risk ranging from 50% to 180%.

Pulsus paradoxus

Pulsus paradoxus is a sign that is indicative of several conditions, including cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, chronic sleep apnea, croup, and obstructive lung disease (e.g. asthma, COPD).

Quilizumab

Quilizumab (INN) is a humanized monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of asthma.

Robert Bree

Bree withdrew from practice in 1833, and, after suffering from renewed asthma, died in Park Square West, Regent's Park, on 6 October 1839.

Saw palmetto extract

It has proved useful in irritative cough, chronic bronchial coughs, whooping-cough, laryngitis, acute and chronic, acute catarrh, asthma, tubercular laryngitis, and in the cough of phthisis pulmonalis.

Terbutaline

Terbutaline (trade names Brethine, Bricanyl, Brethaire, or Terbulin) is a asthma symptoms and as a tocolytic (anti-contraction medication) to delay preterm labor for up to 48 hours.


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