upon lung function, asthma symptoms, nighttime awakenings and exacerbations. The study was conducted to determine whether a possible limitation of this classification system is that patients might not remain in any one severity category over time. The study findings suggest that this is indeed the case for patients who have not yet been prescribed an inhaled corticosteroid.

The variability of asthma, and the limitations of point-in-time assessments, may contribute to an underestimation of disease severity for individual patients. Ultimately, this may lead to unnecessary asthma morbidity and, perhaps, mortality.

The findings reinforce the importance of proper asthma management, including the use of daily maintenance treatments (if prescribed), to help keep asthma well controlled.

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