Introduction The under- and over-diagnosis of asthma is widespread and may cause significant risks to patients. There is no single gold standard test to diagnose asthma. There remains considerable ...

Learn key strategies for managing childhood asthma and responding to emergencies to help keep kids safe and healthy.

To diagnose asthma, a doctor will evaluate these symptoms, ask for complete health history, conduct a physical exam and look at test results. At the initial visit, your asthma care provider will ...

Even so, about 30%-40% of people with CVA develop classic asthma. CVA is hard to diagnose. In addition to standard asthma tests, a sputum test may be ordered to look for white blood cells that are ...

Learn about the tests your doctor may use to make an asthma diagnosis. Discover more about lung or pulmonary function tests and the different tests used for allergies and for asthma.

Introduction National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline (NG80) aims to aid asthma diagnosis in children and suggests sequential lung function testing. We compared diagnostic ...

But that doesn't always happen. Some patients require bronchoprovocation to make the diagnosis of asthma. This includes a test called a methacholine challenge. If your spirometry test results don't ...

Objectives The NICE guidelines recommend objective tests for diagnosis of asthma in children. 1 The primary care Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) has resulted in children being referred to ...

New research from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has shown the chance of being correctly diagnosed with asthma varies widely ...

Background Children and young people (CYP) with asthma in the UK are at higher risk of poor outcomes compared with other high-income European countries due to factors including poor access to ...