After switching from a gas stove to an electric stove, individuals with poorly controlled asthma had “substantial” improvements in asthma control, according to data published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
“Health providers should ask asthma patients about the use of gas stoves and educate them about potential harms,” Ashwini R. Sehgal, MD, professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University, told Healio. “People with poorly controlled asthma may consider transitioning away from gas stoves depending on their resources and circumstances.”
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Frailty is a predictor of incident osteoporotic fracture among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to an analysis of data from the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis registry.
“Despite the knowledge that people with RA are at increased risk for osteoporosis and fracture, they remain under-screened and undertreated, contributing to the increased fracture incidence in RA in recent years,” Katherine D. Wysham, MD, of the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, in Seattle, and colleagues wrote in Arthritis Care & Research. “An automated tool that