Objective To compare the prevalence of discrepancies between clinical, physiological, and inflammatory asthma control parameters between patients with asthma and obesity and patients with asthma but not obesity using the Asthma Control Scoring System (ACSS). Methods A retrospective analysis of demographic data and ACSS scores was performed in two groups of patients with asthma (74 with obesity and 74 without obesity) paired for sex, age, and asthma severity. Scores from each asthma control parameter—clinical (respiratory symptoms), physiological (forced expiratory volume in 1 s), and inflammatory (sputum eosinophil percentage)—were compared. Discrepancy was defined as a >20% difference between two scores. Results The prevalence of discrepancies between scores was similar between asthma patients with or without obesity. A sub‐analysis on patients with uncontrolled asthma (ACSS global score <80%) showed a higher prevalence of discrepancies between the clinical and physiological scores in subjects with obesity, the clinical score being higher than the physiological one in most (87%) cases. Conclusions Subjects with obesity and uncontrolled asthma show higher clinical scores than physiological scores, suggesting an under‐evaluation of asthma symptoms. Future studies are needed to evaluate the influence of obesity on each type of asthma symptom.

The finger-to-nose test is routinely performed during the clinical assessment of patients with cognitive impairments. Although widely known to screen for cerebellar dysfunction by unmasking appendicular ataxia, we have found that this test could also be interpreted from a cognitive perspective. We describe two typical signs observed at the finger-to-nose test in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients: the "second finger syndrome" and the "distal pressure sign". By retrospectively reviewing the medical records 461 patients followed at our academic memory clinic, we found that these signs are commonplace in AD, but not in vascular dementia or subjective cognitive impairment.

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