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Asthma : Getting Started

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Asthma Awareness Quiz
Assess your knowledge of the asthma basics with this quiz. What do Ludwig van Beethoven and John F. Kennedy have in common? Asthma. Inflamed airways cause asthma and its recurrent or chronic breathing problems. See how much you know about this disease by taking the following quiz.
Source:StayWell
Date:November 19, 2004
What You Need to Know About Adult Asthma
Chances are, you know someone who has asthma -- or even have it yourself. This brief summary can serve as an introduction or a review of the facts about asthma.
Source:StayWell
Date:January 16, 2000
How Your Lungs Work
When you have asthma, triggers can inflame the sensitive airways in your lungs. This inflammation makes the airways "twitchy" (even more sensitive to triggers). Your airways can then become so narrow that air has trouble getting in and out of your lungs. This is what causes the symptoms of an asthma flare-up.
Source:StayWell
Date:February 25, 2005
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