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.
How to define asthma in large-scale studies?
A. Bjerg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
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Is asthma prevalence increasing in children?
E. von Mutius (Munich, Germany)
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Is there a phenotype shift in asthma?
S. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
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