Definition, diagnosis, disease types, and classification of asthma.

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Published in Int Arch Allergy Immunol on January 01, 2005

Authors

Sohei Makino1, Mitsuru Adachi, Yukihiro Ago, Kazuo Akiyama, Minoru Baba, Yosuke Egashira, Masaki Fujimura, Takeshi Fukuda, Kenshi Furusho, Yoji Iikura, Hiroshi Inoue, Koji Ito, Itsuo Iwamoto, Junzaburo Kabe, Yuichiro Kamikawa, Yoshikazu Kawakami, Norio Kihara, Satoshi Kitamura, Koichiro Kudo, Kenji Mano, Takehido Matsui, Haruki Mikawa, Seishiro Miyagi, Terumasa Miyamoto, Yutaka Morita, Yukio Nagasaka, Takemasa Nakagawa, Shigenori Nakajima, Tsugio Nakazawa, Sankei Nishima, Ken Ohta, Takao Okubo, Hiroki Sakakibara, Yasuyuki Sano, Keisuke Shinomiya, Kenzo Takagi, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Gen Tamura, Hisao Tomioka, Kyoichiro Yoyoshima, Kazuharu Tsukioka, Nobuo Ueda, Michio Yamakido, Susumo Hosoi, Hironori Sagara, Research Group for Asthma Prevention and Management Guidelines

Author Affiliations

1: Dokkyo University School of Medicine.

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