Open AccessDoes the asthma control test reflect inflammation?
Author(s) -
Margherita Neri
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
multidisciplinary respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2049-6958
pISSN - 1828-695X
DOI - 10.4081/mrm.2011.448
Subject(s) - exhaled nitric oxide , medicine , asthma , methacholine , pulmonary function testing , respiratory medicine , provocation test , test (biology) , sputum , outpatient clinic , pulmonology , intensive care medicine , spirometry , respiratory disease , surgery , lung , pathology , alternative medicine , paleontology , tuberculosis , biology
The present issue of Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine includes a paper by Bora et al. [1] investigating the relationship between the asthma control test (ACT) and airway inflammation. In a group of stable asthmatic patients admitted to a pulmonary outpatient clinic, the authors carried out the ACT, pulmonary function tests, methacholine bronchial provocation test (MBPT), fractional exhaled nitric oxide level (FeNO), and induced sputum test. [...]