mild asthma, severe asthma, difficult to treat asthma
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- tags: #permanent
- mild asthma is asthma well controlled on low dose ICS-formoterol
- avoid using the term mild asthma as these patients can also have severe exacerbations. Instead, describe patients as well controlled on low or medium dose ICS-LABA
- severe asthma is asthma that's uncontrolled despite optimal ICS-LABA
- difficult to treat asthma is asthma uncontrolled from other things such as noncompliance, incorrect techniques, comorbidities1