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Fixed airways obstruction among patients with severe asthma: findings from the Singapore General Hospital-Severe Asthma Phenotype Study.
BMC pulmonary medicine - 3 Dec 2014
Yii Anthony Chau Ang, Tan Gan Liang, Tan Keng Leong, Lapperre Therese Sophie, Koh Mariko Siyue
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BACKGROUND: A subset of severe asthma patients has fixed airways obstruction, which is characterized by incomplete reversibility to bronchodilator challenge. We aimed to elucidate the factors associated with fixed airways obstruction in a cohort of patients with severe asthma in Singapore. METHODS: 245 patients from the Singapore General Hospital-Severe Asthma Phenotype Study (SGH-SAPS) were screened. These...
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