This handy reference book, written by Leonard Bacharier, MD, examines the potential triggers for asthma, such as allergens, infection, rhinosinusitis, exercise/cold air, stress/violence, food, GERD, occupational exposures, and various medications.
It takes a different approach to updating and discussing the prevention and treatment of asthma by focusing on the cause of the condition.
Contents include:
- The Relationship of Psychological Stress with Childhood Asthma (Bloomberg and Chen)
- Rhinosinusitis and Pediatric Asthma (Smart and Slavin)
- The Effects of Outdoor Air Pullution and Tobacco Smoke on Asthma (Tatum and Shapiro)
- Occupational Exposures as Triggers of Asthma (Vigo and Grayson)
- Patient-Identifed Barriers to Asthma Treatment Adherence: Responses to Interviews, Focus Groups, and Questionnaires (Bender and Bender)
- Gastroesophageal Reflux: A Potential Asthma Trigger (Harding)
- Food Allergy and Additives: Triggers of Asthma (Spergel and Fiedler)
- Asthma Associated with Exercise (Storms)
- Allergens (Erwin)
- Medications as Asthma Triggers (Covar, Macomber and Szefler
- Infectious Triggers of Asthma (MacDowell and Bacharier)
This resource is published by Elsevier.
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