• Epidemiology and Risk Factors
• 41 min
  1. The changing prevalence of asthma

  • Dr. Deborah Jarvis
• 29 min
  2. Recent advances in asthma genetics

  • Prof. Miriam Moffatt
• 35 min
  3. Asthma: an epidemic caused by epigenetics?

  • Prof. David Schwartz
• 30 min
  4. Role of the microbiota in asthma

  • Prof. B. Brett Finlay
• 32 min
  5. Diet and asthma

  • Prof. Lewis Smith
• 43 min
  6. Obesity and asthma

  • Prof. Anne Dixon
• 35 min
  7. Occupational asthma: management beyond the textbooks

  • Prof. Paul Cullinan
• Clinical Phenotypes
• 42 min
  8. The origins of asthma

  • Prof. Peter Sly
• 46 min
  9. Pre-school wheeze

  • Prof. Andrew Bush
• 50 min
  10. Updates on the management of difficult asthma in school-aged children

  • Prof. Andrew Bush
• 24 min
  11. Smoking asthmatics

  • Prof. Neil Thomson
• 27 min
  12. Aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease

  • Prof. Chris Corrigan
• Mechanisms of Asthma
• 48 min
  13. Advances in asthma: airway inflammation

  • Prof. William Busse
• 48 min
  14. The role of mast cells in asthma

  • Prof. Peter Bradding
• 67 min
  15. Dendritic cells in asthma

  • Prof. Bart Lambrecht
• 30 min
  16. The airway smooth muscle in asthma

  • Prof. Judith Black
• 49 min
  17. Role of virus infection in asthma 1

  • Prof. Sebastian Johnston
• 27 min
  18. Role of virus infection in asthma 2

  • Prof. Sebastian Johnston
• 51 min
  19. Severe asthma: characterisation, mechanisms & treatment

  • Prof. Fan Chung
• 46 min
  20. Steroid resistance in asthma: mechanisms and potential therapies

  • Prof. Ian Adcock
• 26 min
  21. Macrophage in asthma

  • Prof. Douglas Robinson
• Diagnosis of Asthma
• 70 min
  22. Physiology of asthma and involvement of small airways

  • Prof. Charles G. Irvin
• 27 min
  23. Induced sputum in asthma

  • Prof. Antonio Spanevello
• 61 min
  24. Advances in asthma: the role of exhaled nitric oxide in the assessment and management of asthma

  • Prof. Robin Taylor
• Therapy and Management
• 41 min
  25. Pulmonary drug delivery

  • Prof. Anthony J. Hickey
• 32 min
  26. The management of chronic asthma

  • Prof. Mark Fitzgerald
• 21 min
  27. Inhaled corticosteroids and beta2-agonists

  • Dr. Omar S. Usmani
• 20 min
  28. Management of "difficult asthma"

  • Prof. Elisabeth Bel
• 47 min
  29. Management of acute exacerbations of asthma

  • Dr. Chris Fanta
• 34 min
  30. Non-pharmacological treatments for asthma

  • Prof. Neil Thomson
• 45 min
  31. Asthma: beyond the prescription

  • Prof. Martyn Partridge
• 45 min
  32. New drugs for asthma

  • Prof. Peter Barnes
• 24 min
  33. Anti-IgE therapy for asthma

  • Dr. Andrew Menzies-Gow
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 45 min
  34. New drugs for asthma

  • Prof. Peter Barnes
• 35 min
  35. Asthma phenotypes in children

  • Prof. Andrew Bush
• 40 min
  36. Steroid resistance in asthma: mechanisms and potential therapies

  • Prof. Ian Adcock
• 42 min
  37. Severe asthma in children

  • Prof. Andrew Bush

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1. Introduction
2. Agenda
3. Defining prevalence
4. Point prevalence vs. period prevalence
5. Defining 'asthma' for surveys
6. Asthma: from symptoms to drug use
7. Clinical assessments (objective markers)
8. Estimates from surveys
9. Representative population based sample
10. Problems that might occur
11. In mid 1980's
12. Two international initiatives
13. 'Symptom-based' questionnaires in adults
14. Self reported 'asthma' definition in adults
15. 'Symptom-based' asthma definition in children
16. Prevalence of asthma
17. Prevalence of atopy
18. Bronchial responsiveness to methacholine
19. Geographical variation: 'wheeze or whistling'
20. Geographical variation
21. Estimating change in prevalence
22. Increases in asthma prevalence in Birmingham
23. Increase in prevalence of asthma in Wales
24. Prevalence of asthma and exercise-induced drop
25. Prevalence of other allergy-associated disease
26. The Finnish military recruits study (1)
27. Change in prevalence of atopy in Greenland
28. Prevalence of asthma in boys by year of birth (UK)
29. Sensitisation to at least one allergen by age
30. Sensitisation to any allergen by age and cohort
31. Emerging evidence
32. Alternative explanations
33. Wheezing and whistling in 6-7 year old
34. Wheezing and whistling in 13-14 year old
35. Change in prevalence of disease in Wales
36. The Finnish military recruits study (2)
37. Reasons for increase in asthma
38. Hayfever and asthma associate with family size
39. What causes should we look for?
40. Risk factors in two British birth cohorts
41. Conclusion

Topics Covered

• Measuring asthma prevalence in community studies
• Geographical variation in prevalence of disease
• Early studies showing an increase in disease
• More recent studies of time trends
• Possible reasons for changing prevalence of disease

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Series:

• Advances in Asthma

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Pharmaceutical Sciences

Therapeutic Areas:

• Immunology & Inflammation
• Respiratory Diseases

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Publication History

• Published on December 29, 2011

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Deborah Jarvis has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.