Asthma is one of the world s most common chronic diseases.
哮喘是世界上最常见的慢性病之一。
It affects about 300m people.
大约有3亿人患有哮喘。
Yet what triggers any given asthma attack is often unclear and,
然而,人们往往并不清楚是什么诱发了任何特定哮喘的发作,
as a consequence, most asthmatics are not properly treated. Stories of success, like that ofBarcelona, are rare.
其结果,大多数哮喘患者得不到妥善处置。象巴塞罗那这样成功的故事是很罕见的。
Part of the reason for that lack of clarity is inadequate data on where and when attackshappen.
缺乏确切了解的部分原因在于对哮喘在何时何地发作没有足够的数据。
But David Van Sickle, an epidemiologist and medical anthropologist who once worked forAmerica s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, has come up with a solution.
但是曾在美国疾病控制和预防中工作过的流行病学家和医学人类学家大卫凡西科勒想出了一个解决方案。
This is to use the asthma inhalers carried around routinely by patients to record the time andlocation of symptoms as they happen.
这个解决方案就是利用患者例行性随身携带的哮喘吸入器来记录他们的哮喘症状出现时的时间和位置。
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