As asthma affects about 6% of the U.S. population, there is a need to provide guidelines to standardize care to asthmatics to get patients to feel the best they can. Recently, an expert panel of the National Institutes of Health released updated guidelines on care of adults and children with asthma. In this entry I would like to review some changes in these recently updated guidelines.
Overview
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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