Pierre Ernst

TL;DR: The use of sputum cell counts allowed the identification of a subgroup of subjects with severe asthma who were at risk of more frequent asthma exacerbations and monitoring spUTum eosinophil counts in subjects withsevere asthma may allow identifying the subjects with the greatest disease activity.

TL;DR: It is found that daily mortality increased linearly as concentrations of particles increased for persons who had acute lower respiratory diseases, chronic coronary artery diseases, and congestive heart failure, and there appeared to be a stronger association in the summer season.

TL;DR: The clinical and economic effectiveness of zafirlukast is studied among patients with mild-to-moderate asthma who were receiving only -agonists as needed and who therefore might have obtained benefit from additional regular medication, as well as health care use, the need for other medications, and absence from work or school.

TL;DR: The present report generally supports many of the previous recommendations published in the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report and provides higher levels of evidence for a number of those recommendations.

TL;DR: The Asthma Committee of the Canadian Thoracic Society invited a group of Canadian physicians with a particular interest in asthma to meet in Montebello, Quebec, March 9-12, 1995 to arrive at a consensus statement on the optimal approach to the management of asthma in the pediatric and adult ambulatory care settings.