The value of exhaled nitric oxide to identify asthma in smoking patients with asthma-like symptoms

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 794-801

  Malinovschi, Andrei ^a   Backer, Vibeke ^b   Harving, Henrik ^c   Porsbjerg, Celeste ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cut offs; Diagnostic value; Exhaled nitric oxide; Smoking habits

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EOSINOPHIL; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING HABIT; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859790274     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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