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Review
. 2012 Sep;33(3):445-57.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2012.05.003. Epub 2012 Jul 7.

How to diagnose and phenotype asthma

Parameswaran Nair  1 , Angira Dasgupta, Christopher E Brightling, Kian Fan Chung
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Review

How to diagnose and phenotype asthma

Parameswaran Nair et al. Clin Chest Med. 2012 Sep.

Abstract

Asthma has been described as a chronic disease of the airways characterized by variable airflow obstruction, airway hyperresponsiveness, and airway inflammation. This review discusses the diagnosis and phenotyping of asthma, with a special emphasis on phenotyping based on the nature of cellular inflammation and radiological imaging and how this could be used to direct the treatment of asthma and, in the future, to apply specifically directed therapies to specific phenotypes.

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