Question: What other conditions can cause wheezing?
Answer: Bronchiolitis and other viral infections

Question: In adults, what conditions can cause the symptoms of asthma?
Answer: COPD, congestive heart failure, airway masses, as well as drug-induced coughing due to ACE inhibitors

Question: What is a complication of chronic asthma?
Answer: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Question: If you are 65 years old and have an obstructive airway disesase, you are more likely to have what other conditions?
Answer: asthma and COPD

Question: How is COPD differentiated?
Answer: by increased airway neutrophils, abnormally increased wall thickness, and increased smooth muscle in the bronchi

Question: Why is this not determined in a patient with COPD?
Answer: due to COPD and asthma sharing similar principles of management

Question: What are the principles of management for asthma and COPD?
Answer: corticosteroids, long acting beta agonists, and smoking cessation

Question: What is weak that is not helping prevent the development of asthma?
Answer: The evidence for the effectiveness of measures to prevent

Question: What preventative measures always work to prevent asthma?
Answer: none are well supported enough to be recommended for this indication

Question: What has been determined about dietry restrictions during pregnancy and when breast feeding?
Answer: have not been found to be effective and thus are not recommended

Question: Why are smoking bans in place?
Answer: effective in decreasing exacerbations of asthma

Question: Who recoomends immunizations?
Answer: World Health Organization

Question: What is a key component of control and preventing asthma attacks?
Answer: Avoidance of triggers

Question: What are some of the more common triggers?
Answer: allergens, smoke (tobacco and other), air pollution, non selective beta-blockers, and sulfite-containing foods

Question: What can reduce the effectiveness of medications?
Answer: Cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke

Question: What did law that limit smoking accomplish? 
Answer: decrease the number of people hospitalized for asthma

Question: What type of exercise can provide small improvements?
Answer: Yoga

Question: What type of person would use bronchial thermoplasty as an option?
Answer: For those with severe persistent asthma not controlled by inhaled corticosteroids and LABAs

Question: What does bronchial thermoplasty consist of?
Answer: It involves the delivery of controlled thermal energy to the airway wall during a series of bronchoscopies

Question: What effect does bronchial thermoplasty have?
Answer: it appears to decrease the subsequent rate.

Question: What treatment helps improve those with allergic rhinitis and asthma?
Answer: sublingual immunotherapy

Question: What is the prognosis for asthma? 
Answer: generally good

Question: What has caused the mortality rate to decrease?
Answer: due to better recognition and improvement in care

Question: Worldwide, how many people suffer from asthma?
Answer: 19.4 million people as of 2004

Question: How many cases that are diagnosed in childhood make it past 10 years with asthma?
Answer: half of cases will no longer carry the diagnosis after a decade

Question: By 2011, how many people were affected by asthma?
Answer: 235–330 million people worldwide are affected by asthma

Question: How many people die per year from asthma?
Answer: 250,000–345,000 people

Question: What countries is asthma more commonly seen?
Answer: It is more common in developed than developing countries

Question: Why are different countries effected differently?
Answer: The reason for these differences is not well known

Question: How much was the average cost of hospital stays for asthma-related issues for children??
Answer: about $3,600

Question: How much was the average cost of hospital stays for asthma-related issues for adults?
Answer: from $5,200 to $6,600

Question: Who was the most frequent primary payer amount children and adults?
Answer: Medicaid

Question: Who was more likely to seek hospital help in the US for asthma reasons?
Answer: the lowest income communities

Question: When was the first paper written about asthma?
Answer: In 1873

Question: What was first used as a cure for asthma?
Answer: by rubbing the chest with chloroform liniment

Question: In 1880 what was used intraveniously for asthma?
Answer: pilocarpin

Question: When did inhaled corticosteroids and short acting beta agonist start being used? 
Answer: in the 1960s

Question: Did LaserDisks offer higher or lower quality sound and picture than VHS?
Answer: higher-quality

Question: Why didn't LaserDisk gain popularity in North America?
Answer: high costs for the players and video titles themselves and the inability to record TV programming

Question: With whom was LaserDisk a popular choice for it's picture and sound quality?
Answer: videophiles and film enthusiasts

Question: In what city was LaserDisk used as a popular rental medium in the 1990s?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Where was LaserDisc first available?
Answer: Atlanta, Georgia

Question: How many years after VHS was LaserDisk released?
Answer: two years

Question: Under what name was LaserDisc originally marketed?
Answer: MCA DiscoVision

Question: How did the first viewers refer to the media?
Answer: "Video Long Play"

Question: Who purchased the majority stake and re-marketed the product in 1980?
Answer: Pioneer Electronics

Question: Was Laserdisk officially or unofficially reffered to as "Laser Videodisc"?
Answer: unofficially

Question: Did MCA produce the disc or the players after being bought out?
Answer: discs

Question: Who were the scientists that worked on the early research for Laserdiscs?
Answer: Richard Wilkinson, Ray Dakin and John Winslow

Question: What company did the early Laserdisc researchers later found?
Answer: Optical Disc Corporation (now ODC Nimbus)

Question: What product replaced LaserDisc in North America by the early 2000s?
Answer: DVD

Question: Who chose LaserFisc for their Domesday Project in the mid-1980s?
Answer: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Question: What was the BBC Domesday Project?
Answer: a school-based project to commemorate 900 years since the original Domesday Book in England

Question: Which country still exported players to North America until 2001?
Answer: Japan

Question: How large was a standard LaserDisc?
Answer: 30 cm (12 in) in diameter

Question: What numbers are used in Binary information coding?
Answer: 1s and 0s

Question: Were the ealiest LaserDiscs in 1978 analog or digitally formatted?
Answer: analog

Question: What was the length capacity of the CAA55 format?
Answer: 55 minutes 5 seconds

Question: Why was Back to the Future released with analog sound?
Answer: due to the length of the title and the desire to keep the film on one disc

Question: What was the maximum length of the CAA60 format?
Answer: 60 minutes 5 seconds

Question: How many works were released to the public with the CAA70 format?
Answer: There are not any known uses of this format on the consumer market

Question: What was the difference between LaserDisc and LaserVision in the UK?
Answer: "LaserVision" is used to refer to discs with analog sound, while "LaserDisc" is used for those with digital audio

Question: The Phantom Menace was one of the first home videos to use what sound format?
Answer: 6.1 channel Dolby Digital EX Surround.

Question: What sound formatting do DVDs use?
Answer: Dolby Digital audio in digital form

Question: What competition caused LaserDisc sales to decline?
Answer: DVD's growing popularity

Question: Did all AV receivers carry the demodulator circuits necessary for LaserDiscs, or only high-end models?
Answer: higher-end

Question: What did the Onkyo outboard demodulator covert the RF AC-2 signal to?
Answer: 6-channel analog audio

Question: Was sound quality from disc to disc and between players consistent or varied?
Answer: varied greatly