Progress of comorbidities of asthma in children / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

As a common respiratory disease in children, asthma affects children′s physical and mental health and increases the burden on families and society.Patients with asthma can have one or more comorbidities, and these asthma comorbidities not only make the diagnosis of asthma more difficult, but also affect the control and treatment and outcome of the disease.However, asthma comorbidities are often under-recognized and poorly-managed.Therefore, it is important to improve the understanding of asthma comorbidities and to correctly identify, diagnose and treat them.Asthma in children contains a variety of comorbidities.This article reviews the research progress of epidemiology, impact on asthma and the treatment of these common comorbidities of asthma in children.