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Asthma Therapy

Data from University of Virginia, Carter Center for Immunology Research provide new insights into asthma therapy

Published in Genetics and Environmental Health Week, August 20th, 2008

Researchers detail in 'Asthma: a syndrome composed of heterogeneous diseases,' new data in asthma. "To review the concept that asthma comprises distinct heterogeneous inflammatory disorders characterized by patients showing different phenotypes with distinct genetic components, environmental causes, and immunopathologic signa-DATA SOURCES: Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed databases from 1950 to the present time were searched for relevant articles and references regarding the heterogeneity of asthma. Articles that described the various phenotypes of asthma were used for this review," researchers in the United States report.

"Asthma is unlikely to be a single disease but rather a...

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