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Consumer health resource center providing an overview of asthma and its causes, symptoms and treatment.
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Asthma is a disease that affects the breathing passages of the lungs (bronchioles). Asthma is caused by chronic (ongoing, long-term) inflammation of these passages. This makes the breathing passages, or ...
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