June 3, 2015

Clinical asthma phenotyping: A trial for bridging gaps in asthma management

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World J Clin Pediatr. 2015 May 8; 4(2): 13–18.
Published online 2015 May 8. doi:  10.5409/wjcp.v4.i2.13
PMCID: PMC4438436

Abstract:
Asthma is a common disease affecting millions of people worldwide and exerting an enormous strain on health resources in many countries. Evidence is increasing that asthma is unlikely to be a single disease but rather a series of complex, overlapping individual diseases or phenotypes, each defined by its unique interaction between genetic and environmental factors.
Asthma phenotypes were initially focused on combinations of clinical characteristics, but they are now evolving to link pathophysiological mechanism to subtypes of asthma. Better characterization of those phenotypes is expected to be most useful for allocating asthma therapies. This article reviews different published researches in terms of unbiased approaches to phenotype asthma and emphasizes how the phenotyping exercise is an important step towards proper asthma treatment. It is structured into three sections; the heterogeneity of asthma, the impact of asthma heterogeneity on asthma management and different trials for phenotyping asthma.
Keywords: Asthma phenotypes, Asthma heterogenity, Endotypes, Asthma subtypes, Asthma syndrome


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