Cold-related asthma attacks predictable with new test
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
People who have asthma generally suffer worse with colds caused by rhinoviruses than other people do. There are also asthmatics and patients with the severe lung condition COPD in whom the cold virus can trigger serious flare-ups of their condition. A team of researchers has now discovered how this risk group can be filtered out using a blood test.