Pre-Asthma: Early Screening for
Asthma is a highly prevalent disease affecting between 3 and 400 million people worldwide. For many, it's a chronic lifelong disease which has profound implications on people's quality of life. For others, it can be fatal.
The burden of treating asthma is significant. It requires daily therapy, constant monitoring and many medications, including inhalers, oral corticosteroids and monoclonal antibodies in some patients. However, these are extremely expensive and not all countries have authorised their use.
Now there are many risk factors for asthma which are universally recognised. But there are no routine screening programmes for asthma in 'at risk' individuals. So if we look at other conditions that have defined 'pre states', is there a state of 'pre-asthma' where we can intervene to stop full-blown asthma from developing?
Frontiers has published a paper on 'Pre-asthma: a useful concept for prevention and disease-modification? A EUFOREA paper', which can be read here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
To explore this interesting quandary, we have invited Professor Glenis Scadding (EUFOREA Board Member & EUFOREA Rhinitis Expert Panel Chair) to join this EUFOREA news show.
Interview with Prof. Glenis Scadding:
2:35 Pre-Asthma: How has this come about?
4:05 How would you define pre-asthma?
5:44 Genetically, we should be able to tell those at risk of pre-asthma, is that correct?
8:54 Is there a link between pre-disposition and environment (farms & raw milk)?
10:46 Is this concept of pre-asthma gaining importance?
11:47 How about the cost implications?
12:41 Would the intervention be early?
14:21 What does success look like for you?
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