Article
Identifying adult asthma phenotypes using a clustering approach.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Aug 2011
Siroux V, Basagaña X, Boudier A, Pin I, Garcia-Aymerich J, Vesin A, Slama R, Jarvis D, Anto J M, Kauffmann F, Sunyer J
Abstract excerpt
There is a need to improve asthma characterisation by integrating multiple aspects of the disease. The aim of the present study was to identify distinct asthma phenotypes by applying latent class analysis (LCA), a model-based clustering method, to two large epidemiological studies. Adults with asthma who participated in the follow-up of the Epidemiological Study on the Genetics and Environment of Asthma (EGEA2)...
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