TY - JOUR T1 - Biomarker development in asthma from a patient's perspective JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 277 LP - 278 DO - 10.1183/20734735.0303-2019 VL - 15 IS - 4 AU - Dominique Hamerlijnck Y1 - 2019/12/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/15/4/277.abstract N2 - I was finally diagnosed in 1981 with asthma after having had lung problems since childhood. My asthma diagnosis involved a hospital admission to do a lot of tests. At that time, I had no idea what it was all about. I thought that a hospital admission was normal for diagnosing asthma. I underwent allergy tests, bronchoscopy, contrast fluid chest radiography and a lot of blood and sputum tests… and many more. But what exactly they were looking for and what it meant, I had no idea.A patient discusses asthma biomarkers in relation to her experience of living with asthma, and her work as a patient advocate for @EuropeanLung http://bit.ly/2lQPVtU ER -