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  2. Asthma - Wikipedia

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    Asthma phenotyping and endotyping has emerged as a novel approach to asthma classification inspired by precision medicine which separates the clinical presentations of asthma, or asthma phenotypes, from their underlying causes, or asthma endotypes. The best-supported endotypic distinction is the type 2-high/type 2-low distinction.

  3. Pathophysiology of asthma - Wikipedia

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    The mechanisms behind allergic asthma—i.e., asthma resulting from an immune response to inhaled allergens—are the best understood of the causal factors. In both people with asthma and people who are free of the disease, inhaled allergens that find their way to the inner airways are ingested by a type of cell known as antigen-presenting ...

  4. Thunderstorm asthma - Wikipedia

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    Thunderstorm asthma (also referred to in the media as thunder fever or a pollen bomb [1]) is the triggering of an asthma attack by environmental conditions directly caused by a local thunderstorm. Due to the acute nature of the onset and wide exposure of local populations to the same triggering conditions, severe epidemic thunderstorm asthma ...

  5. Cardiac asthma - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac asthma is the medical condition of intermittent wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath that is associated with underlying congestive heart failure (CHF). [1] Symptoms of cardiac asthma are related to the heart's inability to effectively and efficiently pump blood in a CHF patient. [ 2 ]

  6. Asthma trigger - Wikipedia

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    Asthma triggers are factors or stimuli that provoke the exacerbation of asthma symptoms or increase the degree of airflow disruption, which can lead to an asthma attack. [1] An asthma attack is characterized by an obstruction of the airway , hypersecretion of mucus and bronchoconstriction due to the contraction of smooth muscles around the ...

  7. Category:Asthma - Wikipedia

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    Acute severe asthma; Airway remodelling; Alcohol-induced respiratory reactions; Allergies in children; Anti-asthmatic agent; Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease; Asthma; Asthma and Allergy Friendly; Asthma Life Impact Scale; Asthma phenotyping and endotyping; Asthma trigger; Asthma-COPD overlap; Asthma-related microbes; Asthmagen

  8. Epidemiology of asthma - Wikipedia

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    Asthma affects approximately 7% of the population of the United States and causes approximately 4,210 deaths per year. [13] [14] [15] In 2005, asthma affected more than 22 million people, including 6 million children, and accounted for nearly 500,000 hospitalizations that same year. [16]

  9. Global Initiative for Asthma - Wikipedia

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    GINA conducts continuous review of scientific publications on asthma and is a leader in disseminating information about the care of patients with asthma. [2] GINA publishes resources such as evidence-based guidelines for asthma management, and runs special events such as World Asthma Day. GINA's guidelines, revised each year, are used by ...

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