VIDEO: ‘Great asthma content’ presented at CHEST annual meeting

Sandhya Khurana, MD, FCCP, spoke with Healio about important highlights in the asthma space presented at CHEST 2022.

“I think there was great asthma content at the CHEST 2022 meeting this year, ranging from mild to severe advances, including some of the key clinical studies [that] were presented,” Khurana, director of the Mary Parkes Center for Asthma, Allergy and Pulmonary Care and professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, told Healio.

Among the noteworthy highlights were data from the 2021 International Severe Asthma Registry and the presentation of an eosinophil grading algorithm, according to Khurana.

“The ISAR — the International Severe Asthma Registry — found that only a minority, so less than 5% of patients, had non-eosinophilic asthma, which I think is new information that is helpful for us to know,” Khurana said.

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