Asthma morbidity among inner-city adolescents receiving guidelines-based therapy: role of predictors in the setting of high adherence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the expanding effort to provide guidelines-based therapy to adolescents with asthma, attention must be directed to evaluating which factors predict future asthma control when guidelines-based management is applied.

Objective

We evaluated the role of fraction of exhaled nitric oxide in parts per billion, markers of allergic sensitization, airway inflammation, and measures of asthma severity in determining future risk of asthma symptoms and exacerbations in adolescents and young adults participating in the Asthma Control Evaluation study.

Methods

Five hundred forty-six inner-city residents, ages 12 through 20 years, with persistent asthma were extensively evaluated at study entry for predictors of future symptoms and exacerbations over the subsequent 46

SUBMITTER: Gruchalla RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2757267 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature