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Risk factors and characteristics associated with severe and difficult to treat asthma phenotype: an analysis of the ENFUMOSA group of patients based on the ECRHS questionnaire.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Jul 2005
Gaga M, Papageorgiou N, Yiourgioti G, Karydi P, Liapikou A, Bitsakou H, Zervas E, Koulouris N G, Holgate S T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Severe and difficult to treat asthma impairs health status and accounts for about half of asthma expenditure. In 1994, a European Network For Understanding Mechanisms of Severe Asthma (ENFUMOSA) was formed. A large group of patients from nine European countries has been selected. OBJECTIVE: To examine the risk factors and symptoms associated with a phenotype of severe/difficult to treat asthma....
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