Asthma phenotypes in primary care

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol. 30, pp. 13

Abstract

Asthma is a very common disease with a diverse manifestation of symptoms. Some people with asthma hardly have any symptoms, others have a high symptom load, and there are those who seem all fine and suddenly have a (very) severe exacerbation. Besides heterogeneity in symptoms, response to treatment varies widely too. All these varying factors make asthma a complicated disease to manage. Even though this has been known for a long time, up until quite recently most international guidelines advocated a rather one-size-fits-all approach to the management of asthma. However, this all changed with the advent of treatable traits. Now, recent international guidelines promote the identification and subsequent specific management of these treatable traits in people with asthma 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . Treatable traits can be further subdivided into pulmonary, extrapulmonary, and lifestyle-related traits 3 , 6 .

Authors 2

1. Persijn Honkoop corresponding Aachen Department of Public Health and Primary Care (PHEG)

   Leiden University · Leiden University Medical Center

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. p.j.honkoop@lumc.nl

   National eHealth Living Lab (NeLL), Leiden, The Netherlands. p.j.honkoop@lumc.nl

   Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

2. Niels Henrik Chavannes Aachen Department of Public Health and Primary Care (PHEG)

   Leiden University · Leiden University Medical Center

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

   National eHealth Living Lab (NeLL), Leiden, The Netherlands