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Overcoming heterogeneity in pediatric asthma: tobacco smoke and asthma characteristics within phenotypic clusters in an African American cohort.
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma - 1 Sept 2010
Benton Angela S, Wang Zuyi, Lerner Jennifer, Foerster Matthew, Teach Stephen J, Freishtat Robert J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Asthma in children and adolescents is a heterogeneous syndrome comprised of multiple subgroups with variable disease expression and response to environmental exposures. The goal of this study was to define homogeneous phenotypic clusters within a cohort of children and adolescents with asthma and to determine overall and within-cluster associations between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and...
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