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Asthma does **not** consist of three pathological features. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disease that has three pathological features - chronic bronchitis, small airway disease and emphysema.
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c
Asthma consists of three pathological features: chronic bronchitis, small airway disease and emphysema
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Glucocorticosteroids are generally effective in the treatment of asthma. When diagnosed, patients are prescribed inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), such as beclomethasone to use every day.
They are also given a bronchodilator such as salbutamol to use when their symptoms flare up.

Steroids can also be used in COPD with asthma-like symptoms.
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d
Steroids are ineffective in the management of asthma
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A high fever is not a feature of asthma. If a child presents with a high fever along with respiratory symptoms, this would point towards an upper or lower respiratory infection.
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b
High fever at initial presentation
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Asthma is a disease characterised by chronic airway inflammation, leading to constriction. What differentiates asthma from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the airway reversibility.

In asthma, although the airways constrict, bronchodilators are still able to reverse this constriction. This phenomenon is known as bronchodilator reversibility. In COPD, the damage to the lungs is permanent. Bronchodilators are still used in COPD to ease symptoms but they do not reverse the damage.
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a
Airway constriction caused by inflammation is reversible with bronchodilators
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disorder associated with prolonged cigarette smoking, not asthma.

Asthma is considered a hypersensitive allergic-type condition, causing inflammation of the airways. Smoking can worsen asthma, but does not cause it.
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Asthma is caused by cigarette smoking
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Asthma
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Respiratory
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Which of the following statements about asthma is correct?
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