Christine Jenkins
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first heard Sep 2016
last heard 24 Apr
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People with asthma thought it was fairly ordinary or normal routine almost to be woken up by your asthma in the morning with a bit of a cough and a wheeze, to find that you couldn't do all the exercise you wanted to do, or to have an attack when you had a cold.
We now know these things can be completely prevented, and people with asthma should actually not have any of those symptoms so that when
When they even reach for their reliever medication, this is a sign.
This is a sign.
Basically
Yes, the blue puffer.
When you reach for the blue puffer, this is telling you your asthma isn't ideally controlled.
Unless it's a very rare event, perhaps happening once at every couple of weeks at the absolute most.
Well, we are already doing some studies that suggest that you might only need to be h needing ventilin once or twice a week and that that is a flag for having suboptimally controlled asthma that then is at risk of, say, an emergency visit to the doctor or hospital admission, even more severely a life threatening episode.
In the same UK review that I mentioned, about a third of the people with asthma appeared to have only very mild asthma and yet they were at risk of severe attacks.
And our thunderstorm epidemic in Melbourne would be a very good example of that, where people Well you had
Well, certainly as people get older, especially if they've been smokers, having two diseases, both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, is is much more common, probably affects about twenty-five percent of the people with asthma aged over fifty.
But most more importantly, really, is that this particular analysis that we've been talking about, the WHO analysis, is actually of deaths in people between
the age of five and thirty four.
It is now obvious in Australia and most OECD countries that the majority of deaths are occurring in over 50 year olds.
And in Australia, probably 90% of our deaths from asthma occur in over 50-year-olds.
So we really need to be thinking about this as a disease that affects people for the whole of their lives.
And often older people don't exercise, they don't push themselves, they don't think of their asthma as something.
something as serious as having high blood pressure or risk of a heart attack or a stroke or having diabetes.
And yet it is, and indeed it is a cause of death from asthma in older people.
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