New Aspects on Symptoms and Quality of Life and its association to peripheral airway engagement in patients with Allergy or Obstructive Airway Diseases

Background
Patients suffering from chronic diseases, such as allergy,asthma and COPD have an impaired Quality of Life (QoL). Evaluation of symptoms and Quality of Life is usually performed, for both research purposes and in clinical practice, by using standard validated questionnaires.

Aim/Objectives
The project focuses on investigating less examined aspects of this already known impairment of QoL using additional methods other than the standard questionnaires. The aim is also to associate to grade of airway obstruction, specifically in the peripheral airways, and co-morbidities