Background: Spirometry is the most common pulmonary function test. It is widely used in the
assessment of lung function to provide objective information used in the diagnosis of lung …

Although asthma is very common, affecting 5–10% of the population, the diagnosis of
asthma in adults remains a challenge in the real world, which results in both over-and under …

Known to have affected around 340 million people across the world in 2018, asthma is a
prevalent chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. The symptoms such as wheezing …

Background Diagnosing asthma in children represents an important clinical challenge.
There is no single gold-standard test to confirm the diagnosis. Consequently, over-and …

Background: The fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) test is a point-of-care test that is
used in the assessment of asthma. Objective: To provide evidence-based clinical guidance …

Recently, this international task force reported the general considerations for bronchial
challenge testing and the performance of the methacholine challenge test, a “direct” airway …

This document incorporates recommendations from the 2021 Canadian Thoracic Society
(CTS) Guideline–A Focused Update on the Management of Very Mild and Mild Asthma 1 …

Objective Evaluation of pulmonary function impairment after COVID-19 in persistently
symptomatic and asymptomatic patients of all disease severities and characterisation of risk …

Asthma is a heterogeneous syndrome that has been subdivided into physiologic
phenotypes and molecular endotypes. The most specific phenotypic manifestation of asthma …

Advances in the understanding that severe asthma is a complex and heterogeneous
disease and in the knowledge of the pathophysiology of asthma, with the identification of …