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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 20.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Res. 2020 Nov 10;90(1):45–51. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-01231-6

Figure 1. Approach for defining asthma for children.

Figure 1.

We propose the use of the following approach for defining asthma in children. Health care providers have the tools at hand to define asthma severity (red box) and control (green box), as per the NHLBI guidelines, based on symptom frequency and medication use. In addition, the providers should identify presence of comorbidities (yellow box) that have been associated with asthma burden, define the atopic status of the patient (blue box), and the pattern of pulmonary function testing (purple box). Together, these details can be funneled into personalized definition of asthma for any given patient. Examples of asthma definitions for individual patients using this approach are included in grey text within the funnel.