{"id":5797,"date":"2013-08-22T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/criteria-for-the-diagnosis-of-asthma\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:27:53","slug":"criteria-for-the-diagnosis-of-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/criteria-for-the-diagnosis-of-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Criteria for the Diagnosis of Asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that is characterized by variable narrowing of the airways and symptoms of intermittent dyspnea, wheezing, and nighttime or early-morning coughing.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Criteria for the Diagnosis of Asthma<\/strong><br \/>\nPresence of episodic symptoms of airflow obstruction or airway hyperresponsiveness<br \/>\nObjective assessment consisting of one of the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Airflow obstruction that is at least partially reversible with the use of an inhaled short-acting beta 2-agonist, as shown by one of three variables\n<ol>\n<li>An increase in FEV1 of &gt;\/=12% from baseline<\/li>\n<li>An increase in predicted FEV1 of &gt;\/=10 percentage points from baseline<\/li>\n<li>An increase in PEF of &gt;\/=20% (or 60 liters\/min) from baseline<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Diurnal variation in PEF (measured twice daily) of more than 10%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>* FEV1 denotes forced expiratory volume in 1 second, and PEF peak expiratory flow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bel EH. Clinical Practice. Mild asthma. N Engl J Med. 2013 Aug 8;369(6):549-57.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/23924005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mintz M. Asthma update: part I. Diagnosis, monitoring, and prevention of disease progression. Am Fam Physician. 2004;70:893-898.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15368728\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Aug 22, 2013.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[962,961,16,15,123,13],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulmonary","tag-asma","tag-asthma","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnosis","tag-diagnostico"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}