Sex dependence of airflow limitation and air trapping in children with severe asthma.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.12.1079 and PMC identifier 3078583.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Asthma