Championing Asthma Research to Reduce the Burden of Disease NIAID Now | May 7, 2024

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/championing-asthma-research-reduce-burden-disease?utm_campaign=+60449800&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term= Today on World Asthma Day, NIAID reaffirms its commitment to reducing illness and death from this chronic lung disease and improving quality of life through research that informs the development of new asthma prevention and treatment strategies. NIAID-funded studies recently uncovered new risk factors for asthma and a previously unreported cause of frequent, severe asthma attacks. Other studies shed light on poorly understood causes of airway inflammation, as well as on genes and proteins involved in regulating asthma severity.