New approach to intermittent and mild asthma therapy: evolution or revolution in the GINA guidelines?

Izabela Kuprys-Lipinska; Marta Kolacinska-Flont; Piotr Kuna

doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-020-00316-z

doi.org/10.1186/s13601-020-00316-z

New approach to intermittent and mild asthma therapy: evolution or revolution in the GINA guidelines?

Izabela Kuprys-Lipinska

5

,

Marta Kolacinska-Flont

3

,

Piotr Kuna

57

Clinical and Translational Allergy4.40

Volume: 10, Issue: 1

Published: Jun 3, 2020

Abstract

New recommendations from the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) were released in a pocket guide form on April 12, 2019. These recommendations provide very important changes to the management of asthma, especially regarding the treatment of intermittent and mild asthma. Due to safety concerns, GINA experts no longer recommend treatment with a short-acting β2 agonist alone. Henceforth, all adults and adolescents (but not yet children) with mild...