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Inflammation and corticosteroid responsiveness in ex-, current- and never-smoking asthmatics

BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that smoking asthmatics benefit less from corticosteroid treatment than never-smoking asthmatics. We investigated differences in blood and sputum inflammatory profiles between ex-, current-, and never-smokers and assessed their ICS treatment response after 2-week an...

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Autores principales: Telenga, Eef D, Kerstjens, Huib A M, ten Hacken, Nick H T, Postma, Dirkje S, van den Berge, Maarten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24053453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-13-58