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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects >300 million people worldwide [1]. As of 2019, 2.95 million Canadians were diagnosed with asthma [2]. While there are… Click to show full abstract
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects >300 million people worldwide [1]. As of 2019, 2.95 million Canadians were diagnosed with asthma [2]. While there are standard recommendations and guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma, patients living with this disease often experience poor health-related quality of life [3] and continue to experience exacerbations [4]. Despite guideline-based asthma management in Alberta, an inverse trend between asthma prevalence and dispensation of asthma medications in the past 12 years possibly underscores the reason for a large number of emergency department visits https://bit.ly/3HQsBo8
Journal Title: ERJ Open Research
Year Published: 2022
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