title: Complicating features of asthma.
abstract: The recognition of factors other than asthma that make asthma worse, are confused with asthma, or occur concurrently with asthma and may or may not interact with asthma is as important as dealing with the asthma itself. In this article I have tried to give an overview of some of these factors: what they are, how they affect patients with asthma, and what to do about them. The recognition of a covert chronic sinusitis, for example, is often key to controlling a person's disease when it appears that everything is being done appropriately. Close attention to these factors will increase the success of treatment of asthma and improve the quality of life of patients.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy