Asthma and COPD are pathologies linked by difficulty, more or less serious, in breathing. To get to know them better, the online newspaper Healthdesk created a complex project that started in May, the month of asthma (the 7th is World Day), with a cycle of 8 ‘Breathing Dialogues’ conducted on Instagram and Facebook by the journalist and science communicator Roberta Villa with the major experts in pneumology. The entire project is made possible by the unconditional support of GSK.
Playing sports with asthma is possible, even at a competitive level and without contraindications during the spring. Although asthma is not at all a disease linked to seasonality as many believe. The important thing is to keep in mind the three cornerstones that allow you to deal with it in the best possible way: correct and timely diagnosis, appropriate treatment, adherence without hesitation to the therapy prescribed by the doctor. Three cornerstones that also apply to COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a preventable and treatable respiratory disease characterized by an obstruction to the flow of air.
During the initiative – reports a note – Villa and a medical specialist in the subject address, with a language for ‘non-experts’, but rigorous from a scientific point of view, the different aspects of the topics covered, from the false myths to be dispelled to the symptoms, from diagnosis to therapies to the daily management of the disease.
Three ‘Dialogues’ have already been held: the first on the theme ‘Asthma and sport’ with Claudio Micheletto, director of the Pneumology Unit of the integrated university hospital of Verona and president of the National Association of hospital pulmonologists; the second on ‘How to manage COPD’ with Pierachille Santus, full professor of respiratory diseases at the University of Milan and director of the Pneumology Unit at the Sacco hospital, University Centre; the third with Girolamo Pelaia, full professor of Respiratory Medicine and director of the post-graduate specialization school in Respiratory Diseases at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, on the topic ‘COPD: the unknown emergency’. All contributions can be found on HealthDesk’s Instagram, Facebook and YouTube channels.
On Monday 27 May, however, the ‘Dialogue’ is scheduled between Roberta Villa and Dejan Radovanovic, specialist in respiratory diseases at the Pneumology Unit of the Sacco hospital in Milan and researcher at the State University of the Lombardy capital: they will talk about COPD: research, innovations and new technologies’. Four more ‘Dialogues’ will follow, the last of which is expected by mid-July.
The project does not end here, the note concludes. After the ‘Breathing Dialogues’, in fact, it will continue with the creation of an ebook that can be downloaded for free from the HealthDesk.it portal, a longform on the same portal and a podcast that will be available on the main dedicated platforms.
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