Question:

CBI ,Ellis what do you think: http://www.asap-care.com/asthma.htm I found this an interesting  paper, the author says ‘My suspicion is that actual asthma prevalence has not really increased as much as is believed, but the number of people with asthma mimicking symptoms has resulted in an increased diagnosis of asthma’. Later he expresses his concern that many people are taking prescribed asthma drugs on a daily basis, despite the fact that they are not having any asthma attacks or respiratory symptoms. Also that bronchodilators can themselves can make things worse – for example in patients with ‘cough variant’ and ‘chest pain variant’ asthma. Janet

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – CBI ,Ellis what do you think: http://www.asap-care.com/asthma.htm I found this an interesting  paper, the author says ‘My suspicion is that actual asthma prevalence has not really increased as much as is believed, but the number of people with asthma mimicking symptoms has resulted in an increased diagnosis of asthma’. Later he expresses his concern that many people are taking prescribed asthma drugs on a daily basis, despite the fact that they are not having any asthma attacks or respiratory symptoms. Also that bronchodilators can themselves can make things worse – for example in patients with ‘cough variant’ and ‘chest pain variant’ asthma. Janet

I found the most interesting thing about the article is the list of Medline references at the end, on asthma, and the list of asthma links. For those who have read the Expert Panel Report 2, one of the references, I don’t think there is a lot that’s new. I don’t know who the author is; I don’t think the references necessarily support the author’s conclusions in every case, so it’s nice to have the references available, which are hot-linked to the Medline asbstract. Regarding increase in asthma, here is what one reference said: "There is a

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