Surveys of teachers in a range of countries including the US, Germany, Hong Kong and the UK have consistently found low levels of knowledge and understanding of asthma, asthma and exercise and asthma management [ 1, 34, 57- 59].
Genomic information can increase our understanding of asthma etiology as well as individual and population predisposition to developing asthma.
One public health approach to understanding the asthma epidemic would be to identify environmental exposures that increased during the period when asthma prevalence began to increase in industrialized countries and to test their effects in experimental animals.
These recent advances in the understanding of asthma pathobiology, and especially a better knowledge of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie uncontrolled asthma, may have important prospective therapeutic implications.
Our objective was to evaluate compliance with the IBS survey tool and to explore how data from an IBS tool can inform understanding of asthma phenotypes.
Over the past few decades, there have been significant scientific advances leading to improved understanding of asthma as a disease and treatment providing immediate relief.
Our approach to understanding bronchial asthma needs to be broadened to include alterations in the function of afferent nerves that supply airways.
