Ghislaine Scelo, Carlos A Torres-Duque, Jorge Maspero, Trung N Tran, Ruth Murray, Neil Martin, Andrew N Menzies-Gow, Mark Hew, Matthew J Peters, Peter G Gibson, George C Christoff, Todor A Popov, Andréanne Côté, Celine Bergeron, Delbert Dorscheid, J Mark FitzGerald, Kenneth R Chapman, Louis Philippe Boulet, Mohit Bhutani, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Libardo Jiménez-Maldonado, Mauricio Duran-Silva, Bellanid Rodriguez, Carlos Andres Celis-Preciado, Diana Jimena Cano-Rosales, Ivan Solarte, Maria Jose Fernandez-Sanchez, Patricia Parada-Tovar, Anna von Bülow, Anne Sofie Bjerrum, Charlotte S Ulrik, Karin Dahl Assing, Linda Makowska Rasmussen, Susanne Hansen, Alan Altraja, Arnaud Bourdin, Camille Taille, Jeremy Charriot, Nicolas Roche, Andriana I Papaioannou, Konstantinos Kostikas, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos, Sundeep Salvi, Deirdre Long, Patrick D Mitchell, Richard Costello, Concetta Sirena, Cristina Cardini, Enrico Heffler, Francesca Puggioni, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Giuseppe Guida, Takashi Iwanaga, Mona Al-Ahmad, Désirée Larenas Linnemann, Ulises García, Piotr Kuna, João A Fonseca, Riyad Al-Lehebi, Mariko Koh Siyue, Chin Kook Rhee, Borja G Cosio, Luis Perez de Llano, Diahn-Warng Perng Steve, Erick Wan-Chun Huang, Hao-Chien Wang, Ming-Ju Tsai, Bassam Mahboub, Laila Ibraheem Jaber Salameh, David Jackson, John Busby, Liam G Heaney, Paul Pfeffer, Amanda Grippen Goddard, Eileen Wang, Flavia Hoyte, Michael E Wechsler, Nicholas Chapman, Rohit Katial, Victoria Carter, Lakmini Bulathsinhala, Neva Eleangovan, Con Ariti, Juntao Lyu, David Price, Celeste Porsbjerg
BACKGROUND: Investigation for the presence of asthma comorbidities is recommended by GINA as their presence can complicate asthma management. OBJECTIVE: To understand the prevalence and pattern of comorbidities and multimorbidity in adults with severe asthma and their association with asthma-related outcomes. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study using data from the International Severe Asthma Registry from 22 countries. Thirty comorbidities were identified and categorized a priori as either (1) potentially T2-related, (2) potentially oral corticosteroid (OCS)-related or (3) mimicking/aggravating asthma...
August 26, 2023: Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology