Asthma: NHLBI Workshop on the Primary Prevention of Chronic Lung Diseases.

ABSTRACT: Asthma is a common disease with enormous public health costs, and its primary prevention is an ambitious and important goal. Understanding of how host and environmental factors interact to cause asthma is incomplete, but persistent questions about mechanisms should not stop clinical research efforts aimed at reducing the prevalence of childhood asthma. Achieving the goal of primary prevention of asthma will involve integrated and parallel sets of research activities in which mechanism-oriented studies of asthma inception proceed alongside clinical intervention studies to test biologically plausible prevention ideas. For example, continued research is needed, particularly in young children, to uncover biomarkers that identify asthma risk and provide potential targets of intervention, and to

SUBMITTER: Jackson DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4112503 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature