A second difference between the adjustment disorder with depressed mood and other depressions is that the symptoms only last a short time after the stressful situation ends.
Even though asthma is not considered an autoimmune disease, it is a chronic illness which requires the same attention as any other chronic illness. If you have asthma and an autoimmune disease, it is important to keep both under control to prevent one disease from affecting the other.
In addition, a genome screen in a mouse model of asthma found linkage to bronchial hyper-responsiveness on mouse chromosome 10 in the region of syntenic homology to human 12q (79). The facility with which many groups have identified linkage to this regions suggests that it is a true major atopy locus.