Assessing asthma control: Questionnaires and exhaled nitric oxide provide complementary information

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1419-1420

  Lopes, C ^a,b   Fonseca, J ^a   Delgado, L ^a,b   Moreira, A ^a,b   Barros, R ^a   Moreira, P ^a   Castelo Branco, M D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58849130163     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00093008     Document Type: Letter

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