Asthma Research

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of children in the U.S. It inflames and narrows breathing airways and, if untreated, can kill. Asthma tends to run in families, but environmental factors like pollen and pollution also trigger it. Research looks for ways to improve treatment today and prevent asthma in the future.

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Publications

Adapting community based participatory research (CBPR) methods to the implementation of an asthma shared decision making intervention in ambulatory practices.

DASH for asthma: a pilot study of the DASH diet in not-well-controlled adult asthma.

Secondhand tobacco smoke in children with asthma: sources of and parental perceptions about exposure in children and parental readiness to change.

Shared clinician-patient decision-making about treatment of pediatric asthma: what do we know and how can we use it?

Shared treatment decision making improves adherence and outcomes in poorly controlled asthma.

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Research Studies

A Pilot Study of the DASH Diet in Not-Well-Controlled Adult Asthma

Can diet- and exercise-induced weight loss improve asthma control in obese adults?

Measurement of Quality of Life and Perceived Disease Impact on Quality of Life in Asthma

Sub-study of Mechanisms Linking Weight Gain/Loss and Asthma

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Featured Investigator

Sandra Wilson

Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Sandra Reitz Wilson, Ph.D., is Senior Scientist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Research Institute & Adjunct Stanford Clinical Professor of Medicine.

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