A responsible patient: from theory to practice on a model of a patient with bronchial asthma.

Objective: Introduction: The medicine of today is focused on personalized aid to a patient, which involves partnership and mutual responsibility between the patient and the doctor. In our reality, the patient believes that the responsibility for the treatment and outcome depends on the doctor in most cases. The aim: Induce the patient to develop responsibility for the course of asthma against the background of EBW or obesity and introducing this program into the practice of family physicians.

Peculiarities of the course of bronchial asthma in patients with excessive body weight or obesity.

Objective: Introduction: Clinical studies that were devoted to the analysis of the asthma course during concomitant obesity or excessive body weight, demonstrated a number of typical features. Both asthma and obesity or overweight are diseases that form a persistent chronic inflammatory process in the body. The combination and mutual enhancement of the factors of chronic inflammation leads to a more severe clinical course of asthma and reduced control of the disease.