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People who manage their asthma can improve their chances against COVID-19<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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To avoid severe COVID-19 outcomes, people with asthma should stay on top of the condition with control medication, a new USC study finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n Leigh Hopper<\/span>\n \n August 10, 2021<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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(Originally posted at USC News<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Asthmatics who have their illness well under control have less severe COVID-19 outcomes than those with uncontrolled asthma, according to a large study conducted by USC and Kaiser Permanente Southern California.<\/p>\n

The findings, published in\u00a0The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice<\/a>, suggest that asthma patients \u2014 especially those who require clinical care \u2014 should continue taking their asthma medications during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone with asthma should continue to work with their health care provider to ensure they are getting the best treatment for their asthma, which leads to better asthma control and decreases the likelihood of severe COVID-19 outcomes,\u201d said\u00a0Zhanghua Chen<\/a>, co-lead author of the study and an assistant professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.<\/p>\n

Approximately 25 million Americans have asthma, a potentially serious respiratory condition in the face of widespread COVID transmission. The asthma numbers equal about 1 in 13 Americans, including 8% of adults and 7% of children.<\/p>\n

The USC\/Kaiser Permanente collaboration gave researchers a chance to evaluate the impact of breathing disorders on COVID outcomes in a population with equal access to health care.<\/p>\n

Researchers collected data on 61,338 COVID-19 patients using electronic medical records from Kaiser Permanente Southern California from March 1 to Aug. 31, 2020. The mean age was 43.9; 54% were women and 66% had Hispanic race\/ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Medical codes were used to determine if these patients had asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease prior to their COVID-19 diagnosis. Researchers also separated the data further, with the \u201cactive\u201d group accounting for any patients who had a clinical visit for asthma within the last 12 months and the \u201cinactive\u201d group accounting for those who had not.<\/p>\n

A total of 2,751 patients were in the inactive asthma group versus 2,775 in the active group. Additionally, 820 patients had a history of COPD. Patients in the active asthma group had significantly higher odds of hospitalization, a need for intensive respiratory support and ICU admission within 30 days of COVID-19 diagnosis compared to those with no history of asthma or COPD.<\/p>\n

A history of COPD was associated with a higher risk of hospitalization, need for intensive respiratory support and death within 60 days from COVID-19. Notably, researchers did not see a higher likelihood of mortality within 60 days for the active asthma group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study went beyond examining asthma\u2019s impact on COVID-19 outcomes and instead focused on how COVID-19 outcomes might change for asthma patients depending on their level of asthma control,\u201d said study author\u00a0Anny H. Xiang<\/a>\u00a0of the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also saw that even in patients with active asthma, if they were using asthma medications their odds of worsened COVID-19 outcomes decreased, which demonstrates just how important these medications are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to Chen and Xiang, other study authors are co-first author Brian Huang of the Keck School of Medicine and Kaiser; Sandrah Eckel, Duncan Thomas and Frank Gilliland, all of the Keck School of Medicine; Margo Sidell and Mayra Martinez of Kaiser; and Fred Lurmann of Sonoma Technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

This study was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (grant No. 3R01ES029963-01) and the National Cancer Institute (grant Nos. T32CA229110 and\u00a0<\/em>K99CA256525) at the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Keck School of Medicine Department of Population and Public Health Sciences\u2019 COVID-19 Pandemic Research Center at USC.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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