Extract
The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) 2019 report makes a major change in asthma management by recommending that adults and adolescents with mild symptomatic asthma (Step 1) receive as-needed low-dose inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)–formoterol rather than a short-acting β2-agonist alone [1]. At step 2, daily low-dose ICS is recommended, and GINA 2019 considers low-dose ICS–formoterol reliever as an alternative “preferred controller”.
Abstract
The GINA recommendation to use as-required ICS-formoterol in symptomatic mild asthma is applicable to smokers with a low cumulative smoking history, but evidence is lacking for its effectiveness in smokers with medium and high tobacco use http://bit.ly/2Xqqluu
Footnotes
Author contributions: Conception, drafting the manuscript for important intellectual content, manuscript revision and final approval: all authors.
Conflict of interest: N.C. Thomson has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: R. Chaudhuri has nothing to disclose.
- Received October 17, 2019.
- Accepted November 13, 2019.
- Copyright ©ERS 2020
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