Researchers have discovered that patients who suffer from severe asthma are less likely to respond to treatment.
Figures from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) indicate that approximately 25 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with asthma. However, a new study presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress in Barcelona suggests that there is a significant variation among the individuals who suffer from this chronic respiratory disease.
According to Science Daily, researchers found that patients who have severe asthma are less likely to respond to treatment than those who have a milder form of the disease. With this in mind, the goal is to develop more specialized methods of relieving symptoms among individuals.
“We would like to understand why people with more severe asthma are less responsive to the effects of corticosteroids,” the study’s lead author, David Gibeon, said in a press statement. “Our parallel work on the ways in which patients with asthma respond to corticosteroid treatment, which is a commonly used treatment for asthma, show that asthmatics may become less responsive to this treatment in many different molecular ways.”
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