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16238891

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
Asthma is a chronic disease of airway inflammation that affects all age groups. Despite national treatment recommendations and the availability of effective controller medications, asthma morbidity remains pervasive and currently represents a considerable socioeconomic burden. Asthma may be intermittent or persistent; persistent asthma may be mild, moderate, or severe. Many factors influence asthma severity, both on a short-term basis and over time. In individual patients, asthma severity may fluctuate because of physiologic, environmental, socioeconomic, or behavioral factors. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) are safe and well tolerated, and are the preferred long-term treatment for controlling persistent asthma of all severities in adults and children. Awareness of episodic changes in asthma severity, with subsequent tailored adjustment in guideline-based ICS therapy, should enable optimal control of asthma with minimal medication requirements.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0300-7995
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1519-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
The variability of asthma.
pubmed:affiliation
Midwest Children's Chest Physicians, Omaha, NE 68130, USA. murphknsc@aol.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't