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ME11 Asthma and sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults

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Aims: To review the ongoing clinical studies and recent publications that describe the interaction between asthma and sleep-related breathing disorders; to give an overview of the epidemiology of asthma and sleep-disordered breathing in adults and children; to discussthe shared risk factors and inflammatory pathophysiology of sleep-disordered breathing and asthma, and the evidence that suggests that upper-airway obstruction influences asthma severity and response to therapy; to discuss the evidence showing that treating sleep disorders, including insufficient sleep and sleep-disordered breathing, improves asthma outcomes; and to describe novel methods to measure asthma and sleep-related breathing disorders in the home-setting.

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Asthma and sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults Kristie Ross (Cleveland, United States of America)