Pre-Asthma: a useful concept? A EUFOREA paper – Part 2
Late-onset eosinophilic asthma
The concept of pre-diabetes has led to the provision of measures to reduce disease progression through the identification of subjects at risk of diabetes. We previously considered the idea of pre-asthma about allergic asthma and considered that, in addition to the need to improve population health via multiple measures, including reduction of exposure to allergens and pollutants and avoidance of obesity, there are several possible specific means to reduce asthma development in those most at risk (pre- asthma). The most obvious is allergen immunotherapy (AIT), which when given for allergic rhinitis (AR) has reasonable evidence to support asthma prevention in children (2) but also needs further study as primary prevention. In this second paper, we explore the possibilities for similar actions in late-onset eosinophilic asthma.
Co-Authors: Glenis Scadding, Claudia Gray, Diego Conti, Marinda McDonald, Vibeke Backer, Guy Scadding, Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen, Eugenio De Corso, Zuzana Diamant, Claire Hopkins, Milos Jesenak, Pal Johansen, Jasper Kappen, Joaquim Mullol, David Price, Santiago Quirce, Sietze Reitsma, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Brent Senior, Jacob Pontoppidan Thyssen, Ulrich Wahn, Peter W Hellings
