Difficult-to-control asthma
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Investigation of factors associated with difficult-to-control asthma.
OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of factors associated with difficult-to-control asthma. METHODS Patients with severe asthma were selected from the outpatient asthma clinic of the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine Hospital das Clínicas. The patients were divided into two groups: controlled severe asthma and difficult-to-control severe asthma. After new attempts to optimize the severe ast...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1528-4050
DOI: 10.1097/aci.0000000000000195