Article
Classification and implementation of asthma phenotypes in elderly patients.
Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology - 1 Jan 2015
Park Heung-Woo, Song Woo-Jung, Kim Sae-Hoon, Park Hye-Kyung, Kim Sang-Heon, Kwon Yong Eun, Kwon Hyouk-Soo, Kim Tae-Bum, Chang Yoon-Seok, Cho You-Sook, Lee Byung-Jae, Jee Young-Koo, Jang An-Soo, Nahm Dong-Ho, Park Jung-Won, Yoon Ho Joo, Cho Young-Joo, Choi Byoung Whui, Moon Hee-Bom, Cho Sang-Heon
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BACKGROUND: No attempt has yet been made to classify asthma phenotypes in the elderly population. It is essential to clearly identify clinical phenotypes to achieve optimal treatment of elderly patients with asthma. OBJECTIVES: To classify elderly patients with asthma by cluster analysis and developed a way to use the resulting cluster in practice. METHODS: We applied k-means cluster to 872 elderly patients with...
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