Christine Jenkins
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first heard Sep 2016
last heard 24 Apr
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So they're the anti-inflammatory preventer medications that we talk about for asthma, and they are a remarkable medication in that they only require very small doses to achieve very substantial effects in improving asthma control and preventing asthma deaths.
The other thing is, of course, there were big public health campaigns driving consumer awareness.
So people
with asthma became aware of the fact it could be a life-threatening disease.
And they actually went to their doctors as part of these campaigns.
They were encouraged to do that and and to ask for an asthma action plan, for instance, or a lung function test, so their asthma could be assessed and properly treated.
Yes, there has been a plateau in Australia, and there has been also in the UK, and as I mentioned, also the US.
And there are probably many reasons for this.
So, I mean, first of all, you could propose that the first drop in asthma death rates was the low hanging fruit.
These were people who weren't aware that it was a potentially life threatening illness, or people who weren't taking a preventer medication, people who presented to hospital had a hospital admission, but then
got onto a good track in regard to managing their asthma.
These were people often not aware of how serious asthma could be or how much it was affecting their lives.
And when they received the right treatment and they took their anti-inflammatory preventers, they said, wow, I can't believe I can feel this good.
And now we have a group of people who still have
perhaps an understanding that asthma's not a terribly worrying disease.
They may not be aware that you can lose lung function very slowly over time, and they could have quite bad lung function and not know it.
Then they have an acute attack, suddenly get acutely ill, and can catastrophically decline such that
In the UK Review of Asthma Deaths published in two thousand and fourteen, about half the people who died had not sought emergency help for their asthma in the previous uh twenty four to forty eight hours.
You're absolutely right.
And this dates back to perhaps a couple of decades ago.
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