GINA 2019: a fundamental change in asthma management: Treatment of asthma with short-acting bronchodilators alone is no longer recommended for adults and adolescents

Affiliations

• ¹ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia helen.reddel@sydney.edu.au.
• ² Respiratory Division, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ³ Division of Pulmonology and Dept of Medicine, University of Cape Town and University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁴ Washington University and St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁵ Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
• ⁶ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁷ Pulmonary Dept, Mainz University Hospital, Mainz, Germany.
• ⁸ ProAR Foundation and Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
• ⁹ Respiratory Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
• ¹¹ Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• ¹² Breathe Chicago Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ¹³ Sessional GP and Clinical Lead National Review of Asthma Deaths, UK.
• ¹⁴ China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
• ¹⁵ University of Southern Denmark and Kolding Hospital, Kolding, Denmark.
• ¹⁶ Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, The Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹⁷ Celal Bayar University, Medical Faculty, Dept of Pulmonology, Manisa, Turkey.
• ¹⁸ Québec Heart and Lung Institute, Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada.