Open AccessClinical cases: asthma and obesity
Author(s) -
Ryabova KS,
Goryachkina LA,
Fomina DS
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical and translational allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.979
H-Index - 37
ISSN - 2045-7022
DOI - 10.1186/2045-7022-5-s2-p11
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , exacerbation , sputum , fluticasone , overweight , salmeterol , obesity , body mass index , pediatrics , spirometry , tuberculosis , pathology
Background Recently published issues on asthma phenotyping topic are trying to focus our attention on the geterogensity of asthma in general. By presenting our two cases we would like put a stress on the variety features inside the group of patients with asthma associated with obesity or overweight. This study describes two clinical cases with uncontrolled asthma. Both patients received inhaled therapy with fixed combination IGCS / LABA (1000 mg by fluticasone / salmeterol).