Allergist immunologist from the Division of Allergy Immunology Clinic, Department of Medicine of the RSCM, Dr Iris Rengganis SpPD KAI, said asthma is a disease that attacks the respiratory tract to the lungs. "Asthma is a disease of airway constriction," he said.
Rengganis explained, asthma can be divided into two kinds. First, asthma kardial associated with cardiac abnormalities, and bronchial asthma is a respiratory illness.
Patients with extrinsic bronchial asthma, have hypersensitivity and hyperactivity of the various stimuli from the outside. "These external stimuli such as dust in the surrounding environment, weather, or smoke," said Rengganis who is also lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia.
The intrinsic bronchial asthma or non-allergic generally arise when the patient received psychological disorders, stress, strenuous exercise, and drastic weather changes. "So, all cases of asthma have caused and treatment vary, depending on the type of asthma that affects a person and not based on their gender," he said.
A study reported American cardiology journals reveal, asthma began to appear when someone growing up can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke in women. Uniquely, this did not occur in men.
Dr Stephen J Onufrak from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi, says, asthma that occur when an adult, like other sudden attacks disproportionately experienced by women, such as rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis) and lupus, can be a big risk for heart attack and stroke.
Onufrak and colleagues used data Atherosclerosis Risk study that examined the link between asthma, the risk of heart attack, and stroke by sex.
They found, compared to those without asthma, adult women who develop asthma have a 2.10 increase in heart attacks and 2.36 increase in stroke.
There is no connection between men who suffer from asthma in childhood or adulthood and a heart attack or stroke, with women who suffer from asthma and heart or stroke in childhood.
When this research have implications in treatment, Onufrak said, "I believe that these results need to be replicated in other group studies to provide more concrete recommendations."
Responding to these findings, Rengganis said, the study must be seen first case. Is asthma occurred in the lungs or the heart. "Actually the case has not been much going on. We must see the first real case," he said.
My 6 year old grandson had a stroke on the playground. He had to take breathing treatments for asthma. He lived his entire life in a home with mold issues. What can you tell me regarding any possible correlation between these? Could he have had a seizer on the playground leading to the stroke?
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