Should you reassess your patient's asthma diagnosis?

J Fam Pract

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.

Published: November 2018

Asthma may not be a permanent diagnosis in adults. A study finds that up to one-third of adults with physician-diagnosed asthma no longer had it after 5 years.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302906PMC

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