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Does 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. [...]

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