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Asthma : sourcebook / edited by James Chambers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chambers, James.
- Series:
- Health reference series.
- Health Reference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asthma--Popular works.
- Asthma.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 575 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 6th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Omnigraphics, an imprint of Infobase, [2022]
- Summary:
- Provides basic consumer health information about the diagnosis, treatment, and management of asthma, including facts about coping with the disease, minimizing triggers, managing medications, and a special section on asthma in children. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Basics of Asthma
- Part 2. Recognizing and diagnosing asthma
- Part 3. Medications and asthma management
- Part 4. Living with asthma
- Part 5. Pediatric asthma
- Part 6. Asthma in other special populations and other health conditions
- Part 7. Clinical trials and research studies on asthma
- Part 8. Additional help and information.
- Notes:
- "Provides basic health information about allergic, exercise-induced, occupational, and other types of asthma, including facts about causes, risk factors, symptoms, and diagnostic tests and featuring details about treating asthma with medication and other therapies, minimizing indoor and outdoor asthma triggers, recognizing and handling asthma attacks, monitoring symptoms and developing an action plan, and dealing with co-existing conditions along with a detailed look at childhood asthma concerns, asthma with COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS, and asthma in older adults, pregnant women, athletes, and other special populations; a glossary of related terms; and a list of resources for additional help and information."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chambers, James Asthma Sourcebook, Sixth Edition
- ISBN:
- 9781803161976
- 1803161973
- 9780780820050
- 0780820053
- OCLC:
- 1342596034
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