Special Issue "Recent Advances in Childhood Asthma"

Dear Colleagues,

Asthma is a highly complex and heterogeneous disease that is characterized by chronic airway inflammation, together with recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and variable airflow obstruction. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and a cause of great distress for children. Young children are particularly diverse, with numerous and variable phenotypic presentations in early life that correspond to different outcomes. Despite the high reported rates of remission of asthma, the disease is usually considered as treatable but not curable once present.

We are pleased to invite you contribute to this Special Issue on recent advances in childhood asthma. This Special Issue aims to highlight the risk factors, causes, and symptoms and link these to targeted therapies for asthma. We welcome original research articles and reviews.

Prof. Dr. Bülent Karadağ
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• childhood asthma
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• respiratory tract infection
• cystic fibrosis
• lung function
• treatment