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Exacerbation risk in severe asthma is stratified by inflammatory phenotype using longitudinal measures of sputum eosinophils.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Oct 2016
Walsh C J, Zaihra T, Benedetti A, Fugère C, Olivenstein R, Lemière C, Hamid Q, Martin J G
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BACKGROUND: Airway inflammatory phenotyping is increasingly applied to subjects with asthma. However, its relationship to clinical outcomes in difficult asthma is incompletely elucidated. OBJECTIVE: The goal of our study was to determine the relationship between exacerbation rates and phenotypes of difficult asthma based on the longitudinal measures of sputum eosinophils and neutrophils. METHODS: Subjects in the...
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