Does the asthma control test reflect inflammation?
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Does the asthma control test reflect inflammation?
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 exhale...
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عنوان ژورنال: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2049-6958
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-6-5-270