Exhaled nitric oxide and exhaled breath condensate pH as predictors of sputum cell counts in optimally treated asthmatic smokers

Respirology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 811-818

  Hillas, Georgios ^a,b   Kostikas, Konstantinos ^a   Mantzouranis, Konstantinos ^a   Bessa, Vassiliki ^a   Kontogianni, Konstantina ^a   Papadaki, Georgia ^a   Papiris, Spyros ^a   Alchanatis, Manos ^a   Loukides, Stelios ^a   Bakakos, Petros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asthma; Exhaled breath condensate pH; Exhaled nitric oxide; Induced sputum; Smoking

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SMOKING; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959914494     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.01984.x     Document Type: Article

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