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Author: Wen HUA ¹ ; Huaqiong HUANG ¹ ; Huahao SHEN ²
Author Information

1. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China.
2. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China. huahaoshen@163.com.
Publication Type:Journal Article
MeSH: Asthma; diagnosis; epidemiology; prevention & control; therapy; Guidelines as Topic; Humans
From: Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences 2016;45(5):447-452
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: The revision inincludes both the diagnosis of asthma and the control-based asthma management. It points out that asthma is a heterogeneous disease, and the diagnosis of asthma should be based on the characteristic pattern of symptoms and evidence of variable airflow limitation, emphasizing the diagnosis of atypical asthma. Besides, the epidemiology of asthma, assessment of asthma, management severe asthma, special type of asthma and asthma in special populations have been added in this version. The revised guideline provides an important reference for the standardized management of asthma.