Etiology of asthma
Humbert, M.; Pham, S.; Garcia, G.
La Revue du Praticien 51(5): 517-521
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-2640 PMID: 11345560 Document Number: 536801
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways which occurs in genetically predisposed individuals. This common disease has an epidemic progression in western countries. Despite the identification of several candidate genes, genetic modifications cannot explain the recent increase in asthma prevalence and severity in the last forty years. Environmental factors are likely to be the cause of the progression of this epidemic inflammatory disease.