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Novel measure of lung function for assessing disease activity in asthma

INTRODUCTION: In asthma, lung function measures are often discordant with clinical features such as disease activity or control. METHODS: We investigated a novel technique that provides a measure (σCL) of unevenness (inhomogeneity) in lung inflation/deflation. In particular, we compared σCL with FEV...

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Autores principales: Smith, Nicholas M J, Couper, John, Fullerton, Christopher J, Richmond, Graham, Talbot, Nick P, Hancock, Gus, Pavord, Ian, Ritchie, Grant A D, Robbins, Peter A, Petousi, Nayia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7066624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32161066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2019-000531