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E-book WAO White Book on Allergy
The most common reasons for presentation to primary care are respiratory symptoms, encompassing both acute infections and long-term conditions such as asthma, rhinitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Asthma and asthma attacks are often triggered by allergies. It is, therefore, important that primary care physicians also assess the allergic triggers of these diseases. However, proper diagnosis and treatment for allergy and asthma are limited by the inadequate state of allergy knowledge within primary care. (The WAO estimate of allergy prevalence of the whole population by country ranges between10 - 40%).III Allergy training at the undergraduate level is almost non-existent in several countries, paired with little exposure to post-graduate allergy training except for physicians pursuing a career in allergy. It is not surprising that allergists obtain superior outcomes with asthma sufferers compared to the primary care physicians who see the majority of the patients.
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