Different Kinds of Asthma
- Thursday, July 23, 2009, 23:58
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- Andrew:
- Dr. Martinez, we’ve discussed previously on our Web site the definition of asthma, but it sounds like your research is making it more complex. From your study, how do you define asthma today?
- Dr. Martinez:
- There are many different forms of asthma. That’s the first important thing to say, that the children who – and adults – have difficulty breathing periodically that and then get a little bit better or get much better may have different causes for that. So, in terms of how we define asthma, we have become very broad in our definition.
We consider that subjects have asthma when they have periodic difficulty to breathe and that they get better after certain treatments that are given to them. That is enough for us.
Of course, this kind of disease has different courses in different individuals, and what we’re learning now is the different ways in which the disease develops in these different individuals.
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