Advances in Asthma

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on the Advance in Asthma in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information about the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Asthma, one of the most common chronic res- piratory disease in adult and children, giving a substantial burden for public health. In the next ten years, there are more than 350 millions people with asthma worldwide. Although the great success of asthma management that has been obtained in the last decades, asthma is still a serious respiratory disease. Currently, asthma is one of diseases that imposes a burden on patients, their families and the community, especially severe asthma. Patients with severe asthma experience a heavy burden of symptoms and exacerbations that requires emergency care and may lead to death in some situations. In addition, patients with severe asthma face to a very high healthcare cost due to biologic treatment, physician visits, and hospitalizations.

Therefore, many objectives in asthma management should be achieved in the near future for well control this disease. More awareness in asthma adherence and asthma treatment in children and adult must be emphasized in the patients' education programs. Advanced biomarkers of Th2- and non-Th2 asthma should be developed by scientists for driving the indication and follow-up of target treatment with biologic therapies in these patients. Finally, more researchs on asthma endotype and phenotype and its modifiable cofactors should be reconsidered by physicians in the next decade.

Hence, this Special Issue of Advance in Asthma opens a new horizon in publication of relevant data and ideas on asthma research in 2020. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Prof. Sy Duong-Quy
Prof. Dr. Timothy J Craig
Prof. Dr. Isabella Annesi-Maesano
Guest Editors

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