Abstract:Asthma has assumed global prominence as the most common non-communicable respiratory disease in children. [1] Asthma is now regarded as a heterogeneous disease with several phenotypes and underlying endotypes. [2] Disease heterogeneity is seen in the variable clinical presentations and the nature/extent of airway inflammation and remodeling. Asthma phenotypes and endotypes appear to represent a multitude of the host (gene)-environment reciprocal influences that occur over different periods. [3] Epidemiologic d… Show more
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