Toward Asthma Prevention — Does All That Really Matters Happen before We Learn to Read?
- 9 October 2003
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (15) , 1473-1475
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejme030041
Abstract
Patients with asthma and their caregivers are currently faced with a remarkable paradox. Considerable progress has been made during the past 20 years in the pharmacotherapy, educational tools, and environmental measures available for the control of symptoms of asthma. As a result of these advances, more than 90 percent of patients with asthma now have the potential to lead a normal life. The bad news, however, is the absence of any universally accepted strategy for the prevention of the disease. With the exception, perhaps, of measures for the avoidance of infrequent forms of asthma caused by very specific types of . . .Keywords
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