Asthma Awareness

In this video playlist, Rodney J. Folz, MD, PhD, division chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Houston Methodist and a Jerold B. Katz Investigator at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute, discusses:

• racial and ethnic disparities in asthma diagnosis, treatment and care;
• risk factors for developing allergic asthma, such as genetic and environmental factors;
• challenges in treating allergic asthma, including the potential inability to control environments that may trigger allergy and the cost of medications for the patient;
• the impacts of air pollution on asthma severity; and
• recent treatment advances in allergic asthma, including biologic treatments.