Bronchial asthma is one of the most frequent respiratory disorders, affecting 5% of the adult Spanish population, although its prevalence appears to be levelling off among adolescents. The management of asthmatic patients is widespread among general practitioners, allergists and pneumologists, although the most severe forms prove challenging for professionals due to the associated disability, reduced quality of life and treatment Costs. The prevalence of severe uncontrolled asthma is not negligible; a recent study that recorded information from 164 hospital units in Spain over 6 months, showed that 666 (65.9%) patients among 36,649 adult asthmatics, met criteria for uncontrolled severe chronic asthma according to GINA criteria. For this and other reasons, the creation of specific asthma units has led to improved assistance, a rational use of medical resources and the use of specific biologic therapies for this disease.
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