World Asthma Day, asthma is not really scary

BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua Dong) Since 2007, "World Asthma Day" theme has been set as "asthma is able to control", the 2014 is still in use. Head of China Asthma Alliance, "when patients are familiar with the purpose of treatment, while mastering the correct use of drugs such as inhaled glucocorticoids, know what they need to do in the event of an acute asthma attack," Lin Jiangtao, a professor at China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, said in a recent press conference on "World Asthma Day". To maintain close contact and communication with the asthma specialist, and to develop a suitable treatment plan, asthma is indeed a disease that can be satisfactorily controlled. ”

So far, asthma is still the world's recognized medical problem, the World Health Organization as one of the four major diseases of disease, it has become second only to cancer in the world's number two fatal and disabling diseases.

In some Western developed countries, the incidence of asthma is as high as 20%, some even up to 40%. In 2013, the Chinese Asthma Alliance released a national survey of asthma and related risk factors, the total prevalence rate of asthma was 1.24%.

Although China is currently the country with a low prevalence of asthma, Lin Jiangtao remains concerned that the prevalence and historical data, and the comparison of some regional provinces and cities over the past decade, are about one-fold higher and are growing at a very rapid rate.

The survey found that in recent years, Chinese asthma patients with asthma control rate is still low, and global asthma prevention and treatment in 2010 proposed "in the next 5 years to reduce the proportion of asthma in the world 50%" control target still large gap.

In fact, over the past 20 years, the incidence of asthma has increased worldwide. Data show that at least 300 million of the world at present, China has at least 20 million of asthma patients.

"Patients with asthma need long-term and sustained control of drug therapy," he said. Lin Jiangtao points out that corticosteroids used to treat asthma are considered safe and can be used for a long time. "Asthma is a benign disease, as long as early diagnosis, early treatment, asthma can be well controlled, asthma patients can work like normal people, study, participate in sports activities, can be completely the same as normal." ”

"Since June 4, 2005, since the establishment of the China Asthma Alliance, the alliance has done a lot of fruitful work, and it is important to popularize the knowledge of asthma prevention and control in the public." "Lin Jiangtao introduced, the Alliance also built in the country six asthma specialist training base, the standardized diagnosis and treatment of asthma played a great role, but also marked a step forward in China's asthma prevention and control work." Finish)