The definition and diagnosis of asthma Conferences

abstract

• SummaryAsthma defies precise definition, despite several carefully worded statements. Perhaps the most concise and useful description of asthma is “variable airflow obstruction”. The diagnosis is made by recognition of a patterns of one or more characteristic symptoms including wheeze, cough, chest tightness and dyspnoea, and is best confirmed by evidence of variable or reversible airflow obstruction accompanying symptoms.

authors

• O'Byrne, Paul
• Sears, Malcolm
• Sears, Professor Malcolm R

status

• published 

publication date

• May 1993

has subject area

• Asthma (MeSH)
• Bronchi (MeSH)
• Child (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Respiratory Mechanics (MeSH)

published in

• Acta Allergologica  Journal

keywords

• Allergy
• Immunology
• Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• Science & Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1398-9995.1993.tb04692.x

PubMed ID

• 8109702

start page

• 12

end page

• 16

volume

• 48

issue

• s17