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Definition and Classification of Asthma

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The history of the semantics of generalized reversible airway obstruction, “asthma,” is rather complex, but perhaps this is not so surprising. There are few conditions in which so many variables, endogenous and exogenous in nature, are involved, and these can provoke an immense variability in the phenotype of asthma.

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Orie, N.G.M. (1993). Definition and Classification of Asthma. In: Allegra, L., Braga, P.C., Dal Negro, R. (eds) Methods in Asthmology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2263-8_1

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