Sexual, gender minorities experience increased risk for asthma severity

HONOLULU — Patients who identified as sexual and gender minorities experienced greater risks for asthma severity than patients who identified as heterosexual, according to an abstract presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.
The use of e-cigarettes alone or with tobacco cigarettes augmented these risks, Tugba Kaplan, MD, internal medicine resident at Anne Arundel Medical Center, and colleagues wrote.
Recent guidelines from the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) say that clinicians should consider both symptom control and the likelihood of future exacerbations when evaluating asthma

HONOLULU — Patients who identified as sexual and gender minorities experienced greater risks for asthma severity than patients who identified as heterosexual, according to an abstract presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.
The use of e-cigarettes alone or with tobacco cigarettes augmented these risks, Tugba Kaplan, MD, internal medicine resident at Anne Arundel Medical Center, and colleagues wrote.
Recent guidelines from the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) say that clinicians should consider both symptom control and the likelihood of future exacerbations when evaluating asthma