Article
Developing and emerging clinical asthma phenotypes.
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice - 1 Jan 2000
Hekking Pieter-Paul W, Bel Elisabeth H
Abstract excerpt
For more than a century, clinicians have attempted to subdivide asthma into different phenotypes based on triggers that cause asthma attacks, the course of the disease, or the prognosis. The first phenotypes that were described included allergic asthma, intrinsic or nonallergic asthma, infectious asthma, and aspirin-exacerbated asthma. These phenotypes are being reviewed elsewhere in this issue of the journal....
Topics
- Animals
- Asthma
- Asthma, Exercise-Induced
- Biomarkers
- Comorbidity
- Disease Progression
- Environmental Exposure
- Environmental Pollutants
- Humans
- Lung
- Occupational Exposure
- Phenotype