TY - JOUR AU - Liccardi, Gennaro AU - Calzetta, Luigino AU - Milanese, Manlio AU - Bilò, Maria Beatrice AU - Liccardi, Maria Vittoria AU - Matera, Maria Gabriella AU - Rogliani, Paola PY - 2020/04/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Anxiety and depression in adolescents with asthma and in their parents. Is an increased basal cholinergic tone a possible further reason to explain the negative impact on asthma control? JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 1 SE - Letters to the Editor DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1233 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1233 SP - AB - <p><strong>To the Editor</strong></p><p>We read with interest the excellent article of <a href="https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2019.1063%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Licari </a><em><a href=" https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2019.1063%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">et al</a>.</em>&nbsp; reporting that anxiety and depression are common in adolescents suffering from asthma as well as in their parents, mainly in mothers. The consequence of this relationship is that emotional disorders might negatively affect also the control of asthma.</p> ER -