Background While there seems to be a consensus that a decrease in gut microbiome
diversity is related to a decline in health status, the associations between respiratory …

Despite the availability of guideline recommendations, diagnostic confusion between COPD
and asthma appears common, and often it is very difficult to decide whether the obstruction …

Introduction Discriminating asthma from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
using medico-administrative databases is challenging but necessary for medico-economic …

The nervous system mediates key airway protective behaviors, including cough, mucus
secretion, and airway smooth muscle contraction. Thus, its involvement and potential …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are the most common
obstructive pulmonary diseases. Patients with asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) …

Recent studies have shown that subgroups of COPD and asthma patients may have
overlapping immune responses. Never-smoked asthma patients may have persistent …

Background Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease and is often associated with multiple
comorbidities. The causal relationship between asthma and these comorbidities is still …

Although patients with ACOS or overlap symptoms may be an exception, overall there
appears to be more evidence supporting that asthma and COPD are distinct processes …

Many thousands of articles relating to asthma appear in medical and scientific journals each
year, yet there is still no consensus as to how the condition should be defined. Some argue …

Background Smoking asthmatics respond worse to existing asthma therapies and have
more asthma symptoms and exacerbations. Objective We evaluated the Asthma Control …