Assessing asthma in African American children using the Asthma Control Test and the Childhood Asthma Control Test
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Assessment of control of bronchial asthma in children using Childhood Asthma Control Test.
BACKGROUND The use of Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT) has been advised for monitoring asthma control by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines. OBJECTIVE To validate the tool C-ACT for the assessment of control of asthma and to examine the correlation between C-ACT score and lung function assessed by forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1). METHODS This was a prospec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1081-1206
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2014.12.019