Depression and Asthma: Need to Consider Autonomic Imbalance in Asthma Management.
Depression and Asthma: Need to Consider Autonomic Imbalance in Asthma Management.
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抑郁症和哮喘:哮喘管理中需要考虑自主神经失衡。
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10.1016/j.jaip.2023.01.001
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2023
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Wright,RosalindJ
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Frost,Allison;Wright,RosalindJ
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including poverty, interpersonal violence, and caregiver 21 depression, are predictive of asthma onset and increased severity of asthma symptoms in 22 children1. Yet, prevention and intervention programs that target childhood asthma typically focus 23 on physical environmental (eg, dust, air pollution), nutritional, or pharmacological targets2. 24 Among common childhood adversities, maternal depression has been considered as a 25 promising avenue for intervention. A significant body of research links caregiver depression and 26 children’s asthma morbidity, although the evidence has largely been cross-sectional. In the 27 January issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Brown et al3. add 28 significantly to this literature by prospectively examining relationships between improvement in 29 caregiver depression and subsequent improvement in child asthma control and lung function. 30 These investigators enrolled caregivers (primarily mothers) who at baseline met criteria for 31 major depressive disorder and their children aged 7-17 years with persistent asthma. They 32 conducted a prospective study examining associations between repeated assessment of 33 caregiver depressive symptoms and both subjective (standardized Asthma Control Test) and 34 objective (change in forced expired volume in 1 second (FEV1% predicted)) child measures. 35 Research staff conducting caregiver depression assessments were blinded to child outcome 36 assessments and vice versa. This study demonstrates that, among mothers with depression, 37 increased time in remission over the study period was associated with improved asthma control 38 in their children as well as improved lung function. These findings highlight the potential for 39 psychosocial intervention programs focused on caregivers’ mental health to address children’s 40 respiratory disease morbidity. 41Brown and colleagues also provide insight into pathways linking maternal depression to asthma 42 control and suggest a role for neural mechanisms that may be playing a fundamental role. We 43 expand on that discussion within a broader framework that considers how caregiver depression 44 is behaviorally, psychologically, and biologically embedded in children and how this can 45 influence asthma severity and control. As depicted in Figure 1, mechanisms underlying 46 associations between caregiver depression and childhood respiratory health are multifactorial 47 and potentially bidirectional. 48