GINA Treatment Guidelines

AIRE Findings

• minimal (ideally no) chronic symptoms, including nocturnal symptoms
  

• 46% had daytime symptoms and 30% experienced sleep disturbances once a week
  

• Minimal (infrequent) episodes

• 61% reported severe episodes of coughing, wheezing, chest tightness or shortness of breath
  

• No emergency visits

• nearly a third (30%) of the patients had emergency visits to hospital or doctor in the past year
  

• minimal need  beta2-agonist

• 63% used quick-relief medicine in previous month
  

• no limitations on activities including exercise
  

• 63% patients reported limitation in activities including sports, household chores, choice of jobs
  
• 17% adults and 43% children missed work/school
  

• have normal or near-normal lung function (PEF variability <20%)
  

• over 50% of patients had never received a lung function test