Sex dependence of airflow limitation and air trapping in children with severe asthma.

Sorkness, Ronald L; Teague, W Gerald; Penugonda, Madhuri; Fitzpatrick, Anne M; National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program · J Allergy Clin Immunol · 2011

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

In this cross-sectional evaluation of 77 severe and 71 non-severe asthmatics ages 6–17, boys, unlike girls with severe asthma, exhibited adult-like patterns of air-trapping and post-bronchodilator airflow limitation, apparently coincident with the onset of the severe asthma phenotype.

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