TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - The Biology of Asthma A1 - Chupp, Geoffrey L. A1 - Bell, Matthew C. A1 - Busse, William W. A2 - Grippi, Michael A. A2 - Antin-Ozerkis, Danielle E. A2 - Dela Cruz, Charles S. A2 - Kotloff, Robert M. A2 - Kotton, Camille Nelson A2 - Pack, Allan I. PY - 2023 T2 - Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 6e AB - Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by persistent variable symptoms that include shortness of breath, cough, and wheezing.1 It is the most common chronic lung disease and one of the most prevalent diseases in the United States, affecting more than 20 million adults and 7 million children.2 Attempts to elucidate the cellular and molecular effector pathways that contribute to asthma have led to the realization that it is a protean disease driven by many cell types and mechanisms. This degree of mechanistic variation explains the numerous clinical phenotypes that are now recognized, as well as differences in response to treatment with inhaled therapies and the targeted biologic treatments that have entered the clinic over the last decade. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/20 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1194950625 ER -