“…Ding and Small in this issue of Respirology reported an interesting study that described the patient characteristics, treatment patterns and disease burden of subjects with mild asthma residing in urban areas of China. The study shared the same protocol as the Respiratory Disease‐Specific Programme (DSP) study, which was a prospective cross‐sectional survey conducted by primary care and specialty physicians in eight countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, USA, Japan and China) . The number of subjects from China in the multi‐country DSP study that had been prescribed a GINA Step 1 or 2 regimen was 83 .…”