Global Initiative for Asthma Strategy 2021: executive summary and rationale for key changes

Helen K Reddel; Leonard B Bacharier; Eric D Bateman; Christopher E Brightling; Guy G Brusselle; Roland Buhl; Alvaro A Cruz; Liesbeth Duijts; Jeffrey M Drazen; J Mark FitzGerald; Louise J Fleming; Hiromasa Inoue; Fanny W Ko; Jerry A Krishnan; Mark L Levy; Jiangtao Lin; Kevin Mortimer; Paulo M Pitrez; Aziz Sheikh; Arzu A Yorgancioglu; Louis-Philippe Boulet

doi:10.1183/13993003.02730-2021

Global Initiative for Asthma Strategy 2021: executive summary and rationale for key changes

Eur Respir J. 2021 Dec 31;59(1):2102730. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02730-2021. Print 2022 Jan.

Authors

Helen K Reddel¹, Leonard B Bacharier², Eric D Bateman³, Christopher E Brightling⁴, Guy G Brusselle^{5

6}, Roland Buhl⁷, Alvaro A Cruz⁸, Liesbeth Duijts⁹, Jeffrey M Drazen^{10

11}, J Mark FitzGerald¹², Louise J Fleming¹³, Hiromasa Inoue¹⁴, Fanny W Ko¹⁵, Jerry A Krishnan¹⁶, Mark L Levy¹⁷, Jiangtao Lin¹⁸, Kevin Mortimer^{19

20}, Paulo M Pitrez²¹, Aziz Sheikh²², Arzu A Yorgancioglu²³, Louis-Philippe Boulet^{24

25}

Affiliations

¹ The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia helen.reddel@sydney.edu.au.
² Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
³ Dept of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Leicester National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁵ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
⁶ Depts of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Pulmonary Dept, Mainz University Hospital, Mainz, Germany.
⁸ Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
⁹ Dept of Pediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Divisions of Medical Communication and Pulmonary Medicine, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹² University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
¹³ Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁴ Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
¹⁵ The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
¹⁶ Breathe Chicago Center, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁷ Locum General Practitioner, London, UK.
¹⁸ China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
¹⁹ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
²⁰ Dept of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
²¹ Pediatric Respiratory Division, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²² Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
²³ Dept of Pulmonology, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
²⁴ Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, QC, Canada.
²⁵ Département de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.

Abstract

The GINA Strategy Report provides clinicians with an annually updated evidence-based strategy for asthma management and prevention. This article summarizes key recommendations from GINA 2021, and the evidence underpinning the new changes. https://bit.ly/3FZblIS

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anti-Asthmatic Agents* / therapeutic use
Asthma* / drug therapy
Humans

Substances

Anti-Asthmatic Agents