The phrase "asthmatic patients" refers to people who have a medical condition called asthma, which causes difficulty in breathing due to narrowing of the airways in their lungs. Full definition
Max Seibold, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at National Jewish Health, and his colleagues recently described a less invasive, less expensive and safer way to obtain genetic profiles of asthmatic patients. (sciencedaily.com)
Earlier, counsel to the defendant, Chief Mike Ozekhome, had argued that Senator Dino Melaye was a chronic asthmatic patient who gasped for breath on Thursday while being arraigned and had to be given his special inhaler right there in the courtroom and in the presence of the trial magistrate, Sulyman Abdalah. (securitykingng.org)
In clinical trials with moderately asthmatic patients who were on chronic steroid treatment, the vaccine has proved just as effective as steroids at keeping asthma at bay. (discovermagazine.com)