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Application of the asthma phenotype algorithm from the Severe Asthma Research Program to an urban population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Patrawalla Paru, Kazeros Angeliki, Rogers Linda, Shao Yongzhao, Liu Mengling, Fernandez-Beros Maria-Elena, Shang Shulian, Reibman Joan
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RATIONALE: Identification and characterization of asthma phenotypes are challenging due to disease complexity and heterogeneity. The Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) used unsupervised cluster analysis to define 5 phenotypically distinct asthma clusters that they replicated using 3 variables in a simplified algorithm. We evaluated whether this simplified SARP algorithm could be used in a separate and diverse...
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