Monthly Newsletter from the Arizona Asthma Coalition |
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Save the Date for the Arizona Asthma & Allergy Conference!
Annual Arizona Asthma & Allergy Conference
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Creighton University - Health Sciences Campus Phoenix
3100 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012
Details coming soon!
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Asthma burden score reflecting patient experience may improve symptom management Mayo Clinic
Current asthma guidelines, including those of the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society, define asthma severity based on a patient's medication dose — without taking into consideration the healthcare burden, such as how successfully patients can control their asthma, how often they visit their doctor, visit the emergency room and receive other healthcare services. In other words, what has been missing from the research behind current guidelines is data from the perspective of the patient's quality of life. Mayo Clinic researchers propose a new, personalized approach to asthma using patient-centered information based on healthcare burden data instead of prescribed medication, according to a study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The Mayo-led study is the first to use two longitudinal asthma cohorts from the U.S. and 11 European countries to introduce a tool that measures both asthma control and severity and translates that data into a quantifiable exacerbation – a way to measure the risk of an asthma attack.
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American Lung Association Offers Trainings for Asthma Professionals
RAMP/American Lung Association
The American Lung Association (ALA) provides comprehensive training programs designed to equip asthma professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively support the communities they serve. ALA’s newest training, Patient with Asthma – A Case Study, guides participants through a detailed case study, demonstrating how to apply national asthma management guidelines for diagnosing, treating, and managing asthma. Another training, the Asthma Educator Institute is designed for frontline healthcare professionals, such as nurse, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, other licensed or credentialed healthcare professionals, or educators with 1000+ direct hours of asthma education eligible to sit for the national asthma certification exam. The course can also be a great refresher for certified asthma educators (AE-Cs) preparing for recertification. |
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Persistent weekly disinfectant, cleaning product use may raise odds for current asthma
Healio
Young adults classified as persistent weekly users of disinfectants and cleaning products vs. those who did not use these products weekly had nonsignificant elevated odds for current asthma, according to results published in Allergy. “Among the identified exposure profiles, only a persistent weekly use of multiple [disinfectants and cleaning products] over time seemed to have an adverse effect on asthma,” Emilie Pacheco Da Silva, MS, doctoral student at Université Paris-Saclay and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and colleagues wrote. |
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How eating makes asthma worse
Nature
People with asthma often experience a worsening of symptoms after eating, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Dysregulated type 2 immunity in the lung is a known driver of asthma, and ILC2 immune cells have a key role. As food intake is followed by an increase in parasympathetic neurotransmitter release (such as acetylcholine (ACh)), including in the lung, Chen et al. investigated whether postprandial parasympathetic stimulation of type 2 immunity might underlie the food-related exacerbation of asthma-like symptoms in mice. |
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World Asthma Day
Global Initiative for Asthma In celebration of World Asthma Day 2025, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has chosen the theme “Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL”. GINA emphasizes the need to ensure that people with asthma can access inhaled medications that are essential both for controlling the underlying disease and treating attacks. |
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Stopping asthma in its tracks
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
New therapeutic "cocktails" may provide long-lasting relief for treatment-resistant asthma and other immune system inflammatory diseases. |
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Effect of PM2.5 exposure on susceptibility to allergic asthma in elderly rats treated with allergens
Nature
Fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) is a prevalent atmospheric pollutant that is closely associated with asthma. Elderly patients have a high incidence of asthma with a long course of illness. Our previous studies revealed that exposure to PM2.5 diminishes lung function and exacerbates lung damage in elderly rats. In the present study, we investigated whether PM2.5 exposure influences susceptibility to allergic asthma in elderly rats. |
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Join the Arizona Asthma Coalition As a nonprofit partnership since 1996, AAC has worked together with concerned stakeholders including public health, environmental quality, managed care, education, individual physicians and nurses, hospitals, foundations, families and other colleagues. Become a member of the Arizona Asthma Coalition or renew your membership and help us continue this important work. Join or renew here |
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