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. 2020 Sep 15;91(11-S):e2020002.
doi: 10.23750/abm.v91i11-S.10295.

Asthma in children and adolescents: the ControL'Asma project

Amelia Licari  1 , Giorgio Ciprandi  2 , Gian Luigi Marseglia  3 , Michela Silvestri  4 , Maria Angela Tosca  4 , Elisa Anastasio  5 , Ilaria Brambilla  6 , Carlo Caffarelli  7 , Riccardo Castagnoli  8 , Loredana Chini  9 , Riccardo Ciprandi  10 , Valentina De Vittori  11 , Marzia Duse  12 , Maria Elisa Di Cicco  13 , Luciana Indinnimeo  14 , Ahmad Kantar  15 , Maddalena Leone  16 , Guido Marinelli  17 , Viviana Moschese  18 , Roberta Olcese  19 , Diego G Peroni  20 , Angela Pistorio  21 , Claudia Salmaso  22 , Anna Maria Zicari  23
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Asthma in children and adolescents: the ControL'Asma project

Amelia Licari et al. Acta Biomed. .

Abstract

The control of asthma is the objective of asthma management. However, it is difficult to obtain in clinical practice. The Italian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology promoted the nationwide project "ControL'Asma" to investigate the real situation in a group of children and adolescents with asthma. The preliminary outcomes demonstrated that many asthmatic subjects do not achieve adequate asthma control. Moreover, asthma in Italian children and adolescents was usually more frequent in males, had an early onset and allergic phenotype with very frequent rhinitis comorbidity, uncontrolled and partly controlled asthma affected about the half of subjects. However, this project suggested that the assessment of asthma symptom perception by VAS could be a reliable tool in the asthma management.

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