Pulmonary age-chronological age relation as indicator of improvement and severity of patients with bronchial asthma
| Autor: | María Isabel Castrejón-Vázquez, Jorge Galicia-Tapia, Ricardo Leopoldo Guido-Bayardo, Felipe Ortiz-Contreras, Raúl Cícero-Sabido, María Eugenia Vargas-Camaño |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista Alergia México, Vol 61, Iss 4, Pp 305-316 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0002-5151 2448-9190 |
| DOI: | 10.29262/ram.v61i4.5 |
| Popis: | Background: Spirometry is a very useful clinical test to evaluate pulmonary function in asthmatic patients. However, pulmonary function could be affected by the sex, time of clinical evolution, lung age (LA) and chronological age (CA). Objective: To evaluate LA/CA as index of clinical improvement or severity in asthmatic patients. Material and method: A prospective study was done where asthma severity was evaluated according to GINA classification. Spirometry was performed at the beginning of this study, at 46, 96, 192 days and after 10 months. Statistical analysis was performed using t test, two-way ANOVA test, correlation and multiple regression models as well as ROC curves were also performed, a p |
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