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SUBMITTER: Guilleminault L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9489193 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guilleminault Laurent L Ouksel Hakima H Belleguic Chantal C Le Guen Yannick Y Germaud Patrick P Desfleurs Emilie E Leroyer Christophe C Magnan Antoine A
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society 20170103 143
The concept of asthma has changed substantially in recent years. Asthma is now recognised as a heterogeneous entity that is complex to treat. The subdivision of asthma, provided by "cluster" analyses, has revealed various groups of asthma patients who share phenotypic features. These phenotypes underlie the need for personalised asthma therapy because, in contrast to the previous approach, treatment must be tailored to the individual patient. Determination of the patient's asthma phenotype is th ...[more]