小儿常见呼吸道病防治.pptVIP

Slide * In recent years there has been growing recognition of the epidemiologic, pathologic, and clinical links between asthma and allergic rhinitis. These diseases are frequent comorbidities, resulting in additional symptomatic burdens and higher socioeconomic costs in patients with both conditions.1 Both conditions are characterized by a strikingly similar underlying pathology; i.e., inflammation of the respiratory mucosa associated with the same allergic and pro-inflammatory mediators and cells.1,2 This slide kit will discuss the epidemiologic and pathologic links between these diseases an