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Heterogeneity of obesity-asthma association disentangled by latent class analysis, the SAPALDIA cohort.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Apr 2017
Jeong Ayoung, Imboden Medea, Hansen Sofie, Zemp Elisabeth, Bridevaux Pierre-Olivier, Lovison Gianfranco, Schindler Christian, Probst-Hensch Nicole
Abstract excerpt
Although evidence for the heterogeneity of asthma accumulated, consensus for definitions of asthma phenotypes is still lacking. Obesity may have heterogeneous effects on various asthma phenotypes. We aimed to distinguish asthma phenotypes by latent class analysis and to investigate their associations with different obesity parameters in adults using a population-based Swiss cohort (SAPALDIA). We applied latent...
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