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The Ottawa Hospital is conducting cutting-edge research to improve our understanding of asthma and develop better treatments. This page includes selected news stories about our asthma research, links to researchers working in this area and related resources. Learn more below.
Research News
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World-first trial shows benefits of finding, treating undiagnosed asthma and COPD
May 19, 2024
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"It's estimated that 70 per cent of people with asthma or COPD go undiagnosed. This is the first study to prove that treating those people makes a real difference to their health and quality of life."
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Undiagnosed asthma and COPD a burden for patients, even in early stages
December 6, 2023
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Adults with undiagnosed COPD or asthma have worse quality of life, greater healthcare use and are less productive at work than healthy adults.
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“Super-collaborator” helps patients breathe easier
November 9, 2023
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Dr. Shawn Aaron is receiving The Ottawa Hospital’s Grimes Career Achievement Award for practice-changing research in COPD and other chronic lung diseases
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Spirometry can’t catch all asthma diagnoses
January 4, 2023
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A study led by Dr. Shawn Aaron suggests that asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis may be undiagnosed in a significant number of people who have symptoms, but have normal spirometry lung function tests.
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Questionnaire can find people with undiagnosed asthma, COPD
June 2, 2022
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A team led by Dr. Shawn Aaron developed and validated a tool published in the European Respiratory Journal that can detect undiagnosed asthma and COPD in adults with symptoms.
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Some inhaled corticosteroids for asthma, COPD safer and more effective for older adults
September 29, 2021
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Study reveals important new information for physicians who prescribe inhaled corticosteroids to older patients, a common daily treatment for asthma and COPD
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Dr. Shawn Aaron awarded $4.2 million for research on asthma, COPD
October 24, 2017
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Dr. Shawn Aaron has been awarded a prestigious Foundation Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, worth $4.2 million over seven years.
While Dr. Aaron has recently received world-wide attention for his research on asthma over-diagn
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Retired nurse breathes easily after study finds she was misdiagnosed with asthma
March 23, 2017
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Becky Hollingsworth was one of 613 Canadians who took part in a study that found one third of adults recently diagnosed with asthma do not have it.
Thanks to a random phone call, Becky Hollingsworth got to be part of a study that found she did n
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Study finds 33% of adults recently diagnosed with asthma do not have it
January 17, 2017
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A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 33 percent of adults recently diagnosed with asthma by their physicians did not have active asthma. Over 90 percent of these patients were able to stop their as
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Researchers
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Aaron, Shawn
MD, FRCPC
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Senior Scientist
(ICD)
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Cystic fibrosis, Lung disease, Asthma
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Clinical research
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Austin, Michael
MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC (PTM)
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Clinician Investigator
(ACR)
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Asthma, Cardiac arrest, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Diabetes, Pain, Population health, Stroke
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Clinical decision rules, Clinical trials, Cluster randomized trials, Cohort studies, Critical care, Emergency medicine, Palliative care, Risk assessment
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Clinical Trials
The following list of clinical trials is pulled from ClinicalTrials.gov using the search terms "Asthma” and “Ottawa Hospital.” More advanced search options are available. If you find a clinical trial that interests you, you can bring the information to the next appointment with your care team and ask if you are eligible for the study. If so, they may be able to refer you to the study team. Visit ohri.ca/patients to learn more about participating in research and clinical trials.
Note that ClinicalTrials.gov is hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and is only available in English. Please note that we cannot guarantee a response from the person listed in the ‘Contact’ column.
