Association of quality of life and disease control with cigarette smoking in patients with severe asthma

More information is needed on asthma control and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in smokers with severe asthma. The main study objective was to characterize the association of HRQoL and disease control with cigarette smoking in individuals with severe asthma. A secondary objective was to analyze subject characteristics according to asthma onset: asthma that developed before smoking initiation versus asthma that developed after smoking initiation. This cross-sectional study included subjects with severe asthma aged 18-65 years. HRQoL was assessed using the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) and asthma control was assessed using the Asthma Control Test (ACT) and Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) criteria. Of the 87 patients studied, 58 (66.7%) were classified as asthmatics who had never smoked and 29 (33.3%) as asthmatics with smoking exposure. The proportion of subjects with uncontrolled asthma was higher in the asthma and smoking group (GINA criteria: P=0.032 and ACT criteria: P=0.003. There were no between-group differences in overall AQLQ score (P=0.475) or AQLQ domain scores (P>0.05). Fifty-eight subjects (66.7%) were nonsmokers, 20 (23%) had asthma onset before smoking, and 9 (10.3%) had asthma onset after smoking. Asthma onset before smoking was associated with uncontrolled asthma (P=0.013). In subjects with severe asthma, smoking was associated with a higher rate of uncontrolled disease but not with HRQoL scores

Telecondutas : asma

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Telecondutas : doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica

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Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

oai:omp.abpeducom.org.br:publicationFormat/1O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3 e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo e-book publicado pela ABPEducom, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural, trabalhado na linha do tema geral do evento internacional: Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural Dialogue

Measurement of associated W plus charm production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

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Qualidade de vida na asma : relação com tabagismo, controle da doença, função pulmonar, eosinofilia, atopia e comorbidades

Asma é uma doença inflamatória crônica das vias aéreas. Estima-se que, no Brasil, existam aproximadamente 20 milhões de asmáticos. Além do impacto de morbimortalidade, a doença mal controlada acarreta efeitos socioeconômicos com abstenção ao trabalho, escola e custos à saúde, com necessidade de o paciente buscar a emergência e submeter-se a internações hospitalares. O tabagismo é sabidamente um fator de piora do controle da asma. Ele está associado tanto ao desenvolvimento da asma, como pior controle da doença, piora da gravidade da asma e aumento do declínio da função pulmonar. Objetivos: Comparar os grupos asma associada ao tabagismo e asma não tabagista considerando como desfecho primário a qualidade de vida pelo questionário Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) e como desfechos secundários: gravidade da asma, controle da asma, número de exacerbações, função pulmonar, número de eosinófilos no escarro e parâmetros laboratoriais séricos (IgE e eosinófilos). Realizar a comparação também em relação aos grupos: asma antes do tabagismo, asma após o tabagismo e asma não tabagista. Métodos: 88 pacientes asmáticos de 18 a 65 anos provenientes do Ambulatório de Asma do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre foram selecionados, classificados quanto à gravidade da asma segundo a Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) e questionados quanto ao hábito tabágico, se fosse presente. Os pacientes realizaram os questionários Asthma Control Test (ACT) e AQLQ, bem como teste de função pulmonar completa (espirometria com broncodilatador, difusão de monóxido de carbono (CO), volumes pulmonares e teste de caminhada de 6 minutos) e coleta de hemograma e IgE. Setenta e três desses pacientes foram submetidos à análise de eosinófilos em escarro induzido. Resultados: Comparando-se grupo asma associada e não associada ao tabagismo, houve diferenças estatisticamente significativas para as seguintes variáveis: espirometria, capacidade de difusão de CO e escore de controle da asma (ACT), que demonstraram piores níveis no grupo asma associada ao tabagismo. Não houve diferenças estatisticamente significativas comparando grupos asma associada ao tabagismo e não associada ao tabagismo em relação a: qualidade de vida (avaliada pelo escore AQLQ), dosagem de IgE, eosinófilos sanguíneos e eosinófilos no escarro e distância percorrida no teste de caminhada. Todavia houve diferença na dessaturação no teste de caminhada, que esteve presente apenas em 4 pacientes do grupo asma associada ao tabagismo e em nenhum do grupo asma não associada ao tabagismo. Houve diferença estatisticamente significativa nos testes cutâneos por puntura, os quais foram mais positivos no grupo com asma não associada ao tabagismo. Conclusão: Diversas variáveis apresentaram resultados piores no grupo asma associada ao tabagismo (como função pulmonar, dessaturação no teste de caminhada de 6 minutos, escore no ACT), mas apesar desses achados, a avaliação dos pacientes por meio do AQLQ não mostra uma diferença estatisticamente significativa na ferramenta que avalia qualidade de vida entre os grupos, muito provavelmente porque é uma medida subjetiva e estimada do ponto de vista do paciente. A proporção de pacientes com asma de surgimento após o tabagismo foi de 31% entre os indivíduos tabagistas.Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. It is estimated that, in Brazil, there are approximately 20 million asthmatics. In addition to the impact of morbidity and mortality, the disease with poor control causes socioeconomic effects with abstaining from work, school and health costs, with the need for the patient to seek emergency and hospital admissions. Smoking is known to worsen asthma control. It is associated with both the development of asthma, poorer control of the disease, worsening of asthma severity and increased decline in lung function. Objectives: To compare the asthma groups associated with smoking and non-smoking asthma, considering as primary outcome quality of life for the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) and as secondary outcomes: asthma severity, asthma control, number of exacerbations, lung function, eosinophils number in the sputum and laboratory parameters (IgE and eosinophils). To perform the comparison also in relation to the groups: asthma before smoking, asthma after smoking and non-smoking asthma. Methods: 88 asthmatic patients aged 18-65 years, from the asthma outpatient clinic of the Hospital de Clínicas of Porto Alegre were selected, classified according to the severity of the asthma according to Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and questioned about the smoking habit if present. The patients performed the Asthma Control Test (ACT) and AQLQ questionnaires, performed complete lung function (bronchodilator spirometry, carbon monoxide (CO) diffusion, lung volumes and 6-minute walk test), collection of hemogram and IgE. Seventy three of these patients underwent eosinophils analysis in induced sputum. Results: The following variables were statistically significant: spirometry, CO diffusion capacity and asthma control score (ACT), which showed worse levels in the asthma group associated with smoking. There were no statistically significant differences comparing smoking and non-smoking asthma groups in relation to: quality of life (assessed by the AQLQ score), IgE dosage, blood eosinophils and eosinophils in the sputum and distance walked in the walk test. However, there was difference in desaturation in the walking test, which was present only in 4 patients in the asthma group associated with smoking and in none of the asthma group not associated with smoking. There was a statistically significant difference in skin prick tests, which were more positive in the group with non-smoking asthma. Conclusion: Several variables had worse outcomes in the smoking-associated asthma group (such as pulmonary function, desaturation in the 6-minute walk test, ACT score), but despite these findings, the patients' AQLQ score did not show a statistically significant difference a tool that assesses quality of life between the groups, most probably because it is a subjective measure and estimated from the patient's point of view. The proportion of patients with onset asthma after smoking was 31% among smokers

Search for narrow resonances using the dijet mass spectrum in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV

Results are presented of a search for the production of new particles decaying to pairs of partons (quarks, antiquarks, or gluons), in the dijet mass spectrum in proton-proton collisions at s√=8  TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.0  fb−1, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2012. No significant evidence for narrow resonance production is observed. Upper limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the production cross section of hypothetical new particles decaying to quark-quark, quark-gluon, or gluon-gluon final states. These limits are then translated into lower limits on the masses of new resonances in specific scenarios of physics beyond the standard model. The limits reach up to 4.8 TeV, depending on the model, and extend previous exclusions from similar searches performed at lower collision energies. For the first time mass limits are set for the Randall–Sundrum graviton model in the dijet channel