Some 28 million Americans suffer from asthma attacks. Now, researchers have developed a new method that they say could predict when attacks strike up to five years in advance.
By looking at small molecules in the blood of more than 2,500 people with asthma – an approach known metabolomics – the team at Massachusetts’ Mass General Brigham and the Swedish Karolinska Institutet discovered a relationship between molecules that influence asthma that they say can help tell which patients are at a greater risk for future attacks.
