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Remembering the Patient
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154:977-978.
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ASTHMA CONTINUES to be a vexing problem. The 5 reports in this issue of ARCHIVES remind us of that. The complexity of the problem seems to increase everyday. A MEDLINE search using asthma as the subject found more than 3000 published articles in the English language for 1999. How can one make sense of all this information?
To begin with, we need to ask the question, What do we know about asthma in the United States? The burden of asthma continues to rise in the United States.1 While the poor and minorities bear a disproportionate share of the burden,2 no group in society has been untouched by this rise in asthma prevalence. The role of atopy and underlying inflammation are now recognized as vital components of asthma. Both genetic and environmental factors have been shown to have a role in asthma.3 Many theories have been set forth to explain this . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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