Wheezing phenotypes and clinical predictive indices
asthma, wheeze
THORACIC, ASTHMA
Whilst no tests diagnose asthma with certainty, various attempts were done to improve an asthma diagnosis in young children. For example, different phenotypes have been described based on triggers of wheeze obtained by clinical history, including episodic (viral) wheeze and multi-trigger wheeze. This was adopted by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) taskforce in 2008 [