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