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Sputum neutrophil counts are associated with more severe asthma phenotypes using cluster analysis.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Jun 2014
Moore Wendy C, Hastie Annette T, Li Xingnan, Li Huashi, Busse William W, Jarjour Nizar N, Wenzel Sally E, Peters Stephen P, Meyers Deborah A, Bleecker Eugene R
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BACKGROUND: Clinical cluster analysis from the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) identified 5 asthma subphenotypes that represent the severity spectrum of early-onset allergic asthma, late-onset severe asthma, and severe asthma with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease characteristics. Analysis of induced sputum from a subset of SARP subjects showed 4 sputum inflammatory cellular patterns. Subjects with...
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