Phenotypes and endotypes of adult asthma: moving toward precision medicine

R Kaur, G Chupp - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that is challenging to dissect into
subgroups because of the heterogeneity present across the spectrum of the disease. Efforts …

Asthma phenotypes: the evolution from clinical to molecular approaches

SE Wenzel - Nature medicine, 2012‏ - nature.com
Although asthma has been considered as a single disease for years, recent studies have
increasingly focused on its heterogeneity. The characterization of this heterogeneity has …

Asthma endotypes and an overview of targeted therapy for asthma

S Svenningsen, P Nair - Frontiers in medicine, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Guidelines for the management of severe asthma do not emphasize the measurement of the
inflammatory component of airway disease to indicate appropriate treatments or to monitor …

How inhaled corticosteroids target inflammation in COPD

S Lea, A Higham, A Beech… - European Respiratory …, 2023‏ - publications.ersnet.org
Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the most commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs for the
treatment of COPD. COPD has been previously described as a “corticosteroid-resistant” …

An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials …

HK Reddel, DR Taylor, ED Bateman… - American journal of …, 2009‏ - atsjournals.org
Background: The assessment of asthma control is pivotal to the evaluation of treatment
response in individuals and in clinical trials. Previously, asthma control, severity, and …

Inflammatory subtypes in asthma: assessment and identification using induced sputum

JL Simpson, R Scott, MJ Boyle, PG Gibson - Respirology, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objective: The authors sought to investigate the detection of non‐eosinophilic asthma using
induced sputum. Although this is an important subtype of clinical asthma, its recognition is …

A large subgroup of mild-to-moderate asthma is persistently noneosinophilic

KW McGrath, N Icitovic, HA Boushey… - American journal of …, 2012‏ - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Airway eosinophilia is typical of asthma, and many controller treatments target
eosinophilic disease. Asthma is clinically heterogeneous, however, and a subgroup of …

Analysis of induced sputum in adults with asthma: identification of subgroup with isolated sputum neutrophilia and poor response to inhaled corticosteroids

RH Green, CE Brightling, G Woltmann, D Parker… - Thorax, 2002‏ - thorax.bmj.com
Background: The debate as to whether asthma is a single or heterogeneous disease
remains unresolved although pathological studies, mostly using fibreoptic bronchoscopy on …

Asthma endoty** and biomarkers in childhood asthma

A Licari, R Castagnoli, I Brambilla… - Pediatric allergy …, 2018‏ - liebertpub.com
Childhood asthma represents a heterogeneous challenging disease, in particular in its
severe forms. The identification of different asthma phenotypes has stimulated research in …

Asthma outcomes: biomarkers

SJ Szefler, S Wenzel, R Brown, SC Erzurum… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Measurement of biomarkers has been incorporated within clinical research
studies of asthma to characterize the population and associate the disease with …