Sentence examples for understood asthma from inspiring English sources

In a study performed with a group of low-income asthmatic children in New York City, it was observed that many families understood asthma as an episodic disease, thus giving priority to symptomatic rather than preventive therapies [ 31, 32].

For reasons scientists do not fully understand, asthma rates have been increasing globally.

In view of our current limitations, to understand asthma and design personalised treatment strategies for each patient, requires thinking of systems medicine.

However, our data demonstrate that even with cross-sectional data, there is considerable scope to build more usefully complex models to better understand asthma and other complex diseases (such as eczema).

However, it is increasingly understood that asthma is a heterogeneous disease and therefore identification of potential subgroups or individual subject characteristics is likely to be key in delivering optimal response, with biotherapeutics that target specific mechanisms [ 15, 16, 21].

Following a workshop with experts from academia and the pharmaceutical industry, we suggest here a disease modelling framework designed to better understand human asthma, and accelerate the development of safe and efficacious new asthma drugs that go beyond symptomatic relief.

In the first case I highlight how El Puente has organized residents to conduct a series of asthma health surveys and tapped into local knowledge of the Latino population to understand potential asthma triggers and to devise culturally relevant health interventions.

Researchers have been trying to understand why asthma is increasing.

This highlights the need to consider both pre- and postnatal environments to better understand childhood asthma.

Another major issue is to understand whether asthma symptoms in obese patients are often so difficult to control mainly due to comorbid factors.

It is important to understand whether asthma and obesity are causally associated and, if so, the directionality of the causal pathway or whether both are outcomes from a common exposure.