How might the technology that keeps you from getting lost in your car lead to better asthma control?
David Van Sickle, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wants to map where environmental exposures cause asthmatics to use their rescue inhalers.
Bt attaching the global positioning device directly to the inhaler Van Sickle hopes to be able to identify previously unknown causes of asthma and help health care providers better monitor asthma control. "Established risk factors for asthma do not explain its global prevalence patterns and time trends," says Van Sickle in a UW press release. "Studies of epidemic asthma have demonstrated that understanding the locations where asthma exacerbations occur can help identify important new exposures." Van Sickle says he can envision a time when GPS mapping of asthma outbreaks can allow researchers to "see" exactly what is making people sick. "It will allow us to better target public-health interventions to the places and times when people are really suffering."
If you are interested in participating in the Asthmap trial you must be 18, have a diagnosis of asthma, and use a rescue inhaler (bronchodilator). For more information, call 608-261-1036 or e-mail asthmap@mailplus.wisc.edu.
Do you think a GPS type inhaler might help your asthma?
Photo © Jeff Miller
Bt attaching the global positioning device directly to the inhaler Van Sickle hopes to be able to identify previously unknown causes of asthma and help health care providers better monitor asthma control. "Established risk factors for asthma do not explain its global prevalence patterns and time trends," says Van Sickle in a UW press release. "Studies of epidemic asthma have demonstrated that understanding the locations where asthma exacerbations occur can help identify important new exposures." Van Sickle says he can envision a time when GPS mapping of asthma outbreaks can allow researchers to "see" exactly what is making people sick. "It will allow us to better target public-health interventions to the places and times when people are really suffering."
If you are interested in participating in the Asthmap trial you must be 18, have a diagnosis of asthma, and use a rescue inhaler (bronchodilator). For more information, call 608-261-1036 or e-mail asthmap@mailplus.wisc.edu.
Do you think a GPS type inhaler might help your asthma?
Photo © Jeff Miller
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