Advances in Clinical Diagnostic Methods for Bronchial Asthma

Bronchial asthma is a common disease that is an important public health and social problem, thus a timely and accurate diagnosis is the key to prevention. With the development of diagnostic techniques for integrating Chinese and Western medicine, new treatment concepts, methods, and testing indicators appear regularly, making the diagnosis of asthma more accurate and specific. This article summarizes the diagnostic methods for asthma which are currently available, such as routine laboratory testing, fractional exhaled nitric oxide, exhaled breath condensate-related testing analysis, determination of lung function and airway reactivity, and traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic methods, to facilitate the timely and accurate diagnosis of asthma.