GP practices are facing confusion over different approaches to asthma diagnosis set out in the QOF and in the new UK joint ...

Asthma affects more than 260M people worldwide and nearly 28M people in the U.S. alone, where, on average, 10 people die from attacks of the chronic disease each day.

With a solid basis for why we believe someone has asthma, we can improve the specificity of the diagnostic tests we then use ...

Healthcare professionals diagnose severe asthma if regular ... conditions that have similar symptoms. Read more about testing for asthma. The focus of asthma treatment is to control the symptoms.

Patients may experience smoldering lung destruction despite well-controlled asthma. With emerging data, the diagnostic criteria transcribed by an International Expert Committee in 2013 are the ...

Spirometry is a test used to investigate the cause of symptoms such as breathlessness, cough and wheeze, and is essential for ...

Despite a fall in the number of people with asthma over the past decade who say that cost has stopped them taking their meds ...

Despite a decline in cost-related medication non-adherence among asthma patients, financial hardship continues to impact one ...

The directions say simple respiratory tests should be used to diagnose asthma when people first show symptoms, before ...

Despite a fall in the number of people with asthma over the past decade who say that cost has stopped them taking their meds ...

The guideline also includes new recommendations for the diagnosis of asthma in both adults and children, including the use of FeNO (a simple breath test) and measurement of eosinophil cells in the ...

"It was recently estimated that four people die from asthma every day in the UK. Its variability in conjunction with there still being no single consistently accurate diagnostic test for asthma can ...