Researchers from the Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP) were awarded in the “European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunilogy” (EAACI), the world’s largest congress dedicated to allergology, that took place in the month of June, in Lisbon.
Researchers from the Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP) were awarded in the “European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunilogy” (EAACI), the world’s largest congress dedicated to allergology, that took place in the month of June, in Lisbon.
Mariana Farraia, former research scholarship holder at ISPUP, won the prize for best oral communication with the work designated Human Volatilome Analysis Individuals With Asthma In Clinical Settings. The study, which had already been awarded by the EAACI in January this year, aimed to assess the use of the electronic nose – a device that evaluates patients’ exhaled air – in clinical context, to help the doctors identifying the asthma patients.
Considering that asthma is a complex disease in which the diagnostic is, frequently, a difficult process and poorly tailored to each patient, the study, yet to be published, aims to help creating more means of diagnostic to detect asthma and to help the physicians manage a treatment more adequate to each patient.
The prize for best poster was attributed to the ISPUP researcher, Inês Paciência, by the work entitled Swimming pool training environment may drive skin and gut dysbiosis in elite swimmers. The study compared top-level sporting disciplines – the swimming and football – to analyse the impact of the environment in modifying the microbiome of athletes.
In the Congress, Pedro Cunha, student at Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da U.Porto (FCNAUP), was also distinguished with the prize for best oral communication with work “Dietary acid load: A novel nutritional target on the children’s obese-asthma phenotype?”, that had the participation of staff from FCNAUP, FMUP and ISPUP researchers. The study shows, for the first time, that in obese children, a higher acid load in the diet is associated with a greater likelihood of asthma, raising the hypothesis that this worse nutritional characteristic of the diet is associated with a greater occurrence of that disease.
The “European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology” (EAACI) is an international association of physicians, researchers, and other health-related professionals, devoted to identifying solutions to improve the quality of live of people affected by allergies.
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