Paediatric Allergic Asthma: Risk Factors, Diagnosis, Control and Treatment
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Allergy and Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 8989
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatrics; allergy; asthma; immunology; infections
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Interests: pediatrics; allergy; asthma; immunology
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Dear Colleagues,
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood and adolescence; its prevalence is steadily increasing, affecting approximately 12% of children and 14% of adolescents. It is well established that asthma involves chronic airway inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness to various stimuli. Despite the wide dissemination of guidelines on the subject, asthma is not controlled in 50% of cases, as documented by some recent studies conducted worldwide. The priority objectives of healthcare should be early diagnoses and the maintenance of control, aiming to prevent flare-ups, sometimes serious and potentially fatal, especially in adolescents. Uncontrolled asthma, the main risk factor for severe asthma, leads to frequent recourse to hospital care and significant deteriorations in patients’ quality of life. Among children, the most common asthma phenotype is allergic asthma. Despite considerable progress in understanding the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms, several aspects concerning environmental and genetic risk factors, diagnosis, phenotype and endotype identification, and personalized drug treatments based on novel molecular therapeutic targets are yet to be fully elucidated. Therefore, we welcome a collection of original and/or review articles focusing on paediatric allergic asthma, natural history, comorbidities, diagnosis, possible early interventions, prevention, environmental impact, lifestyle, precision medicine, new therapeutic strategies, and innovative approaches in asthma control and management.
Dr. Maria Angela Tosca
Dr. Cristiana Indolfi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- paediatric asthma
- childhood asthma
- allergic diseases in paediatrics
- comorbidities
- risk factors
- environmental measures
- asthma prevention
- asthma control and treatment
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