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Article: Effect of pregnancy and stage of pregnancy on asthma severity investigated.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- August 14, 2004
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2004 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A literature review of the effect of pregnancy on maternal asthma finds symptoms lessen in most affected women.
H.L. Kwon and colleagues at Yale University searched "six electronic databases ... in January 2003 for prospective studies of currently asthmatic, pregnant women who were enrolled before the third trimester and assessed with objective measures of asthma severity or validated severity scales."
They found three studies that "reported 54 pregnant women with asthma who met the inclusion criteria. The most valid study indicated that bronchial hyper-responsiveness to methacholine improved between ...