The European Community Respiratory Heath Survey (ECRHS) was the first study to assess
the geographical variation in asthma and allergy in adults using the same instruments and …

Asthma management guidelines provide recommendations for the optimum control of
asthma. This survey assessed the current levels of asthma control as reported by patients …

The prevalence of asthma increased worldwide until the 1990s, but since then there has
been no clear temporal pattern. The present study aimed to assess time trends in the …

Asthma represents a growing public health problem and the cost of asthma has been rising
in many countries. The aim of this study was to estimate the direct and indirect cost of …

Background: Few data are available on the asthma burden in the general population. We
evaluated the level and the factors associated with the asthma burden in Europe. Methods …

Asthmatics in the community suffer morbidity due to poor asthma control. The Global
Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines established minimum goals for the management of …

In the early 1990s a multicentre survey on asthma was performed on the young adult
population (European Community Respiratory Health Survey-ECRHS). This study is to be …

Background Asthma undertreatment has been linked to poor outcomes. National guidelines
recommend that physicians classify asthma severity based on pretreatment symptoms and …

Background: Few data are available on the management of asthma in the general
population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of asthma control in Italian …

Due to the lack of information on this topic, the Educational Group of the Italian Association
of Hospital Pneumologists performed an open, multicentre, observational survey to evaluate …