�Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS) explores the mechanisms behind the common cold virus and how it causes asthma attack attacks.
The research, funded by the British Lung Foundation, Asthma UK, the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust, is good news for the five million asthma attack sufferers in the UK because it may lead to a way of preventing attacks in future.
"The vulgar cold is the main reason wherefore people with asthma get bad attacks," says Professor Neil Barnes, spokesperson for the British Lung Foundation. "This research is crucial because it helps us to realize exactly what happens in our lungs during an asthma attack and it may lead to a way of preventing attacks in future."
1. The British Lung Foundation is the only UK charity working for everyone moved by lung disease. The charity focuses its resources on providing support for people affected by lung disease today; and workings in a variety of ways (including funding first research) to bring around positive alteration, to better treatment, tending and support for hoi polloi affected by lung disease in the future.
2. It provides information via the website hypertext transfer protocol://www.lunguk.org and telephone helpline 08458 50 50 20.
3. In 2006 the charity launched a membership schema with the aim of recruiting the 8 one thousand thousand people with lung disease in the UK and anyone with an interest group in lung disease.
4. One person in every seven in the UK is affected by lung disease - this equates to approximately 8 million people
5. Respiratory disease is the second biggest killer in the UK (117,456 deaths in 2004) later all non-respiratory cancers combined which exclusively account for slightly more deaths (122,500 deaths in UK in 2004)
6. Respiratory disease now kills one in five people in the UK
7. The UK's demise rate from respiratory disease is most double the European average and the 6th highest in Europe
8. Respiratory disease is the most usually reported longsighted term unwellness in children and the third nearly commonly reported in adults. One in 7 boys and 1 in 8 girls aged 2 - 15 report having long term respiratory illness in England
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