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Edited by Albert L. Sheffer, with William W. Busse, Peyton A. Eggleston, Thomas A.E. Platt-Mills, Malcolm R. Sears, and Kevin B. Weiss. 607 pp. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1998. $195. ISBN 0-8247-0155-0.

Asthma is one of the commonest chronic diseases. It causes great disability and presumably shortens life. Asthma-related mortality has not been fully assessed, however, and mercifully, the disease rarely kills. Deaths due to asthma have only recently been identified. In 1860, Salter, a pioneer in asthma research, said that "asthma never kills," a view supported later by Osler. The message of this book is that asthma does kill, but that with appropriate therapy no one should die of it.

This book addresses several questions. How does asthma kill? Can the patients at risk be identified? And can death be prevented? . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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