In 1993, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute collaborated with the World Health Organization to convene a workshop that led to a Workshop Report: Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. This presented a comprehensive plan to manage asthma with the goal of reducing chronic...
grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390Québec Heart and Lung InstituteUniversité Laval Québec City QC CanadaChris Brightlinggrid.9918.90000 0004 1936 8411Institute for Lung Health, Leicester NIHR BRCUniversity of Leicester Leicester UKRoland Buhlgrid.410607.4Pulmonary DepartmentMainz University Hospital Mainz ...
T. The many paths to asthma: phenotype shaped by innate and adaptive immunity. Nat. Immunol. 11, 577–584 (2010). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Martinez-Gonzalez, I., Steer, C. A. & Takei, F. Lung ILC2s link innate and adaptive responses in allergic inflammation....
148 Introduction The burden of respiratory disease has moved imperceptibly over the last few decades from a burden of respiratory infections to a burden of long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sleep apnoea syndromes, diffuse parenchymal lung disease and asthma. ...
The human lung—a sterile environment? The role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of asthma has been extensively studied and reviewed in the last decades [8,9]. This is facilitated by non-invasive access to samples that contain high bacterial biomass. In contrast, the microbial density...
collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the USA and the World Health Organization (WHO), GINA developed a Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention; this 1995 report was revised in 2002 [1]. Publications based on the Global Strategy for Asthma Management an...
When asthma is under control patients can: √√ Avoid troublesome symptoms night and day √√ Use little or no reliever medication √√ Have productive, physically active lives √√ Have (near) normal lung function √√ Avoid serious attacks • Asthma causes recurring episodes of wheezing, ...
The other GINA goals of minimal need for short-acting inhaled β2-agonists and normal or near-normal lung function were also not met by a large proportion of patients. Similar findings were reported from a telephone survey of European asthma patients, which showed that only 35% had good ...
Objective To describe barriers to the successful use of the 1997 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) asthma guidelines. Methods We conducted 3 focus groups to understand barriers to the use of 4 recommendations within the NHLBI guidelines (prescription of inhaled corticosteroids, recomme...
consider what reference value ranges should be used for transgender patients. The 2019 American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society guidelines specify that patients should be informed that “birth sex and not gender is the determinant of predicted lung size” and using non-birth sex to...