Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2014; 44: Suppl. 58, abstract number.
Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2014; 44: Suppl. 58, abstract number.
Is asthma prevalence still increasing?
Symposium Chairs: B. Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden), G. Viegi (Pisa, Italy)
Aims: The aims of this symposium are to present:
- The different ways of defining asthma in large-scale studies;
- The trends in asthma prevalence in adults, including severe asthma;
- Ditto in children; and,
- New knowledge about the trends in asthma phenotype shifting.