Asthma exacerbations and lung function in patients with severe or difficult-to-treat asthma

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1125-1127.e4

  Calhoun, William J ^a   Haselkorn, Tmirah ^b   Miller, Dave P ^c   Omachi, Theodore A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^c ICON CLINICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY REMODELING; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; ADOLESCENT; BREATHING; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84943456110     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.05.014     Document Type: Article

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