What is the Asthma Syndrome?
The following was originally published at healthcentral.com on February 26, 2015 What is the Asthma Syndrome? To the advantage of every asthmatic, researchers continue to fine tune the definition of asthma . Now, rather than describing it as a disease that affects all victims the same, many asthma experts say it is a syndrome. So what is this, and what does it mean? A syndrome is a group of diseases that present with similar signs and symptoms. There are six very good reasons to refer to asthma as a syndrome. 1. Heterogeneous . Researchers have learned that every case of asthma is unique, and this may be because each asthmatic has a unique combination of asthma genes . 2. Causes . Researchers have determined that there are over 24 things that might cause asthma . This might be because different asthma genes cause asthma only after exposure (or repeated exposure) to certain environmental substances, and this can happen at nearly any stage of life. The substance migh...