Open AccessEffect of inhaled corticosteroids on systemic inflammation in asthma
Author(s) -
Karthikeyan Ramaraju,
S. Krishnamoorthy,
Smrithi Maamidi,
Anupama Murthy Kaza,
Nithilavalli Balasubramanian
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
perspectives in clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2229-5488
pISSN - 2229-3485
DOI - 10.4103/2229-3485.128026
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , systemic inflammation , body mass index , inflammation , odds ratio , gastroenterology , analysis of variance , c reactive protein
Recent research using serum high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) has evidenced existence of low grade systemic inflammation in asthmatics whose correlation with various clinical indices is not fully studied.