The burden of severe asthma in childhood and adolescence: results from the paediatric U-BIOPRED cohorts

L Fleming, C Murray, AT Bansal… - European …, 2015 - Eur Respiratory Soc
U-BIOPRED aims to characterise paediatric and adult severe asthma using conventional
and innovative systems biology approaches. A total of 99 school-age children with severe …

Sputum inflammatory phenotypes are not stable in children with asthma

L Fleming, L Tsartsali, N Wilson, N Regamey, A Bush - Thorax, 2012 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Two distinct, stable inflammatory phenotypes have been described in adults
with asthma: eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic. Treatment strategies based on these …

The importance of nurse-led home visits in the assessment of children with problematic asthma

M Bracken, L Fleming, P Hall, N Van Stiphout… - Archives of disease in …, 2009 - adc.bmj.com
Objective: To evaluate and identify potentially modifiable factors in children with problematic
asthma by a nurse-led assessment and home visit. Design: Observational cohort study. …

Global Initiative for Asthma Strategy 2021: executive summary and rationale for key changes

…, JM Drazen, JM FitzGerald, LJ Fleming… - American journal of …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Strategy Report provides clinicians with an annually
updated evidence-based strategy for asthma management and prevention, which can be …

Clinical and inflammatory characteristics of the European U-BIOPRED adult severe asthma cohort

…, AR Sousa, SJ Fowler, LJ Fleming… - European …, 2015 - Eur Respiratory Soc
U-BIOPRED is a European Union consortium of 20 academic institutions, 11 pharmaceutical
companies and six patient organisations with the objective of improving the understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Key recommendations for primary care from the 2022 Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) update

…, AA Cruz, JM Drazen, L Duijts, L Fleming… - NPJ primary care …, 2023 - nature.com
The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) was established in 1993 by the World Health
Organization and the US National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to improve asthma awareness, …

GINA 2019: a fundamental change in asthma management: treatment of asthma with short-acting bronchodilators alone is no longer recommended for adults and …

…, R Buhl, AA Cruz, L Fleming… - European …, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
GINA no longer recommends treating adults/adolescents with asthma with short-acting
bronchodilators alone. Instead, they should receive symptom-driven (in mild asthma) or a daily …

Diagnosis and definition of severe refractory asthma: an international consensus statement from the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI)

EH Bel, A Sousa, L Fleming, A Bush, KF Chung… - Thorax, 2011 - thorax.bmj.com
Patients with severe refractory asthma pose a major healthcare problem. Over the last decade
it has become increasingly clear that, for the development of new targeted therapies, there …

Pediatric severe asthma is characterized by eosinophilia and remodeling without TH2 cytokines

CJ Bossley, L Fleming, A Gupta, N Regamey… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The pathology of pediatric severe therapy-resistant asthma (STRA) is little
understood. OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that STRA in children is characterized by …

U-BIOPRED clinical adult asthma clusters linked to a subset of sputum omics

…, M Caruso, P Chanez, SE Dahlén, LJ Fleming… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Asthma is a heterogeneous disease in which there is a differential response to
asthma treatments. This heterogeneity needs to be evaluated so that a personalized …