The phrase "asthma may be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the potential characteristics, causes, or effects of asthma in a hypothetical or uncertain context.
Example: "In some cases, asthma may be triggered by environmental factors such as pollen or dust."
Alternatives: "asthma could be" or "asthma might be".
"Besides those children whose asthma may be exacerbated by pollution and who would then need to increase their medication, the main issue is related to pollution exposure on a chronic basis as current evidence indicates that lung growth is restricted.
"Some allergic diseases such as asthma may be fatal," wrote Dr. Ira Finegold, chief of the allergy division at St . Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, in a letter to the F.D.A. opposing the switch.
Asthma may be a disease in which a natural host defense mechanism, which would produce acid when challenged by a microbe, has gone awry, with lungs producing too much acid at the wrong time.
The mechanisms that contribute to adverse outcomes for the neonate in pregnancies complicated by asthma may be mediated via changes in placental immune function.
The parallel increase of the two suggests that obesity and asthma may be related and that abnormalities in the lipid and/or glucose metabolism may contribute to the pathogenesis of asthma.
Respiratory symptoms including shortness of breath with exercise in obese asthma may be mistaken for being related to the obesity alone; thus, pulmonary function testing should be performed to rule out a diagnosis of asthma.
Breaking the nexus between viral respiratory infections and asthma may be possible with interventions designed to inhibit atopy-related effectors mechanisms from participating in the host response to respiratory viral infections.
The low specificity for the CCQ in asthma may be due to several additional factors.
Thus, asthma may be caused by epigenetic changes such as DNA methylation, post-translational modifications of histones, dysregulation of non-coding RNAs, and chromatin alterations.
To exclude the possibility that the common symptoms of cough in asthma may be confused for cold symptoms, further ROC analysis was conducted excluding the chest symptoms domain.
This finding suggests that the ability of H. pylori exposure to modify asthma may be mediated via mechanisms other than those associated with IgE levels.
