BACKGROUND: Approximately 500,000 children undergo tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) annually for treatment of obstructive sleep disordered breathing (oSDB). Although polysomnography is beneficial for preoperative risk stratification in these chi...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Jun 28, 2019
Approximately 50 million Americans have allergic diseases. Airborne plant pollen is a significant trigger for several of these allergic diseases. Ambrosia (ragweed) is known for its abundant production of pollen and its potent allergic effect in Nort...
BACKGROUND: The relationship between allergic sensitisation and asthma is complex; the data about the strength of this association are conflicting. We propose that the discrepancies arise in part because allergic sensitisation may not be a single ent...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
We present an approach for manually and automatically classifying the resource type of medical questions. Three types of resources are considered: patient-specific, general knowledge, and research. Using this approach, an automatic question answering...
The increasing global burden of allergic diseases and multimorbidity underscores the urgent need for innovative strategies to strengthen immune health. This review explores the complex relationships among nutrition, gut microbiota, immune regulation,...
Allergic asthma in children is typically associated with house dust mites (HDM) as the key allergen. Nevertheless, the diagnostic rate remains below 60% due to the absence of specific symptoms and diagnostic markers, which hinders the implementation ...
Allergies have become an emerging public health problem worldwide. The most effective way to prevent allergies is to find the causative allergen at the source and avoid re-exposure. However, most of the current computational methods used to identify ...
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