Bronchial Asthma Topics – What is Bronchial Asthma (Asthma for short)?

Asthma is not uncommon in the people around us. However, “labored wheezing” is not necessarily asthma. For example, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, etc., at some point in the course of the disease can appear “wheezing effort”. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways involving a variety of cells, including inflammatory cells and structural cells (e.g., eosinophils, mast cells, T-lymphocytes, neutrophils, smooth muscle cells, airway epithelial cells, etc.) and cellular components (cellularelements). This chronic inflammation leads to airway hyperresponsiveness, usually with widespread and variable reversible airflow limitation, and causes recurrent episodes of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, or coughing, which often flare up and worsen at night and/or early in the morning, and which resolve spontaneously or with treatment in most patients. Risk factors for the development of asthma include both host factors (genetic factors) and environmental factors. Asthma is one of the common chronic respiratory diseases, and in recent years its prevalence has been increasing globally year by year. Many studies have shown that standardized diagnosis and treatment, especially long-term management, play an important role in improving the control of asthma and the quality of life of patients.