NIH R01 · 2024
Predicting Exacerbations of Asthma in Real-World Patients with Low Medical Utilization (PEARL)
PROJECT SUMMARY Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects > 20 million Americans. The prevalence of asthma has been increasing since the early 1980s in all age, sex, and racial groups. There is no universal method for de- termining asthma severity. The terminology and the definition used in various asthma guidelines have evolved over time. Most commonly, asthma severity is determined by clinical parameters such as medica- tion use, presence and/or frequency of asthma symptoms, number of asthma exacerbations (which are acute or subacute episodes of progressively worsening shortness of breath, cough, wheezing, and chest tight- ness or some combination of these symptoms), and/or…
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