Missing the Mark: Latin American Adults Not Meeting Asthma Goals GINA Treatment Guidelines
AIRLA Survey Findings
•Minimum (ideally no) chronic symptoms, including nocturnal symptoms
•62% reported severe episodes of coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, or shortness of breath; 56% reported persistent symptoms
•Minimal (infrequent) episodes
•56% reported daytime symptoms, 54% experienced sleep disturbances and 41% had symptoms during exercise in the past 4 weeks; 27% were symptom free in this period
•No emergency visits
•Over one half (52%) of adult patients had emergency visits to a hospital or doctor in the past year
•Minimal need for prn beta2-agonist
•55% used quick-relief medicine in previous month
•No limitations on activities including exercise
•79% of adult patients reported limitation in activities including sports, household chores, choice of jobs •31% of adults and 58% of children missed work/school
•Have normal or near-normal lung function (PEF variability <20%)
•Nearly half (49%) of adult patient had never received a lung function test