• 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. Asthma
3. Asthma by age and sex, US, 2001-2009
4. Factors that influence asthma
5. Asthma: environmental factors
6. Trends in UK vegetable consumption
7. Dietary changes and asthma - Ethiopia
8. Dietary changes and asthma - Saudi Arabia
9. Asthma and diet (1)
10. Asthma and diet (2)
11. Individual dietary factors
12. Asthma and antioxidants
13. Asthma and antioxidant vitamins
14. Asthma and selenium
15. Selenium treatment
16. Asthma and magnesium
17. Asthma and n-3 fatty acids (1)
18. Asthma and n-3 fatty acids (2)
19. Asthma and vitamin D (1)
20. Asthma and vitamin D (2)
21. Vitamin D levels and asthma: Costa Rica
22. Vitamin D levels & allergy: inverse association (1)
23. Vitamin D levels & allergy: inverse association (2)
24. Asthma and vitamin D: severe exacerbations (1)
25. Asthma and vitamin D: severe exacerbations (2)
26. Vitamin D - VIDA
27. Asthma - soy isoflavones (1)
28. Asthma - soy isoflavones (2)
29. Soy isoflavones - genistein
30. Soy isoflavones: consumption
31. Human in vitro studies
32. Genistein reduces LTC4 release
33. Effect of soy isoflavone supplement
34. Effect of soy isoflavone supplement: participants
35. Soy isoflavone reduced LTC4 synthesis
36. Juniper ACQ "improved" with soy isoflavone
37. FeNO decreased with soy isoflavone intake
38. No affect on pre-bronchodilator FEV1
39. Study of soy isoflavones in asthma (SOYA)
40. Summary

Topics Covered

• Increase in asthma worldwide
• Parallel environmental changes including diet
• Assessing role of diet is complex
• Focus on antioxidant vitamins, vitamin D and genistein

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Series:

• Advances in Asthma

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Respiratory Diseases

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on December 29, 2011

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Lewis Smith has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.