pH in expired breath condensate of patients with inflammatory airway diseases

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1364-1370

  Kostikas, Konstantinos ^a   Papatheodorou, Georgios ^a   Ganas, Konstantinos ^a   Psathakis, Konstantinos ^a   Panagou, Panos ^a   Loukides, Stelios ^a,b  

^a 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asthma; Bronchiectasis; COPD; Expired breath condensate; pH

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ISOPROSTANE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ACIDIFICATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BREATH TEST; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHILIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; BREATH TESTS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037092556     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200111-068OC     Document Type: Article

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