Asthma in children and adolescents: the ControL’Asma project

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Amelia Licari https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1773-6482
Giorgio Ciprandi
Gian Luigi Marseglia
Michela Silvestri
Maria Angela Tosca
Elisa Anastasio
Ilaria Brambilla
Carlo Caffarelli
Riccardo Castagnoli
Loredana Chini
Riccardo Ciprandi
Valentina De Vittori
Marzia Duse
Maria Elisa Di Cicco
Luciana Indinnimeo
Ahmad Kantar
Maddalena Leone
Guido Marinelli
Viviana Moschese
Roberta Olcese
Diego G Peroni
Angela Pistorio
Claudia Salmaso
Anna Maria Zicari

Keywords

asthma, asthma control, children, adolescents, VAS, respiratory symptoms, lung function

Abstract

The control of asthma is the objective of asthma management. However, it is difficult to obtain in clinical practice. The Italian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology promoted the nationwide project “ControL’Asma” to investigate the real situation in a group of children and adolescents with asthma. The preliminary outcomes demonstrated that many asthmatic subjects do not achieve adequate asthma control. Moreover, asthma in Italian children and adolescents was usually more frequent in males, had an early onset and allergic phenotype with very frequent rhinitis comorbidity, uncontrolled and partly controlled asthma affected about the half of subjects. However, this project suggested that the assessment of asthma symptom perception by VAS could be a reliable tool in the asthma management.

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