Increasing our knowledge base of asthma

During the past decade, there has been an explosion in our knowledge of asthma. There are new descriptions of phenotypes, endotypes, and even genotypes. New approaches to management have been and continue to be developed. The realization and characterization of a spectrum of overlap with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in many patients with asthma have been reported in detail and approaches to management of patients with severe asthma continue on the forefront. These and other aspects of asthma are well represented in the more than 200 articles published on asthma since 2015 in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

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