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ArticleJournal of primary care & community health2016

Use of Exhaled Nitric Oxide as a Biomarker in Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Ahmed A Arif, Colin Mitchell

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Article in Journal of primary care & community health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. ADAMTS5 May Serve as a Useful Biomarker for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
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2 authors.

Ahmed A ArifUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA aarif@uncc.edu.
Colin MitchellWalden University, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive and nonreversible disease, is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world. Because airway inflammation is a hallmark of COPD, it has been proposed that measuring exhaled nitric oxide, a marker of inflammation, in exhaled breath condensate could prove to be an inexpensive and efficient method to detect COPD in outpatient settings.

methodsThis study used secondary data on a sample of 10,214 individuals 30 years and older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007 to 2010. Binary and ordinal logistic regression analyses were used to test the association of exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) with COPD and COPD severity.

resultsThe prevalence of COPD was 7.2%, based on self-reported physician diagnoses and 11.4% based on prebronchodilator spirometry analysis. This study found no statistically significant association between eNO, COPD, and COPD severity (P > .05).

conclusionsThe findings of this study do not support use of eNO as a biomarker of inflammation in diagnosis and management of COPD.

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AdultAgedBiomarkersBreath TestsExhalationFemaleHumansLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedNitric OxidePrevalencePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveSeverity of Illness IndexBiomarkersNitric Oxidechronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)COPD severityexhaled nitric oxide (eNO)GOLD

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PMID26718918
PMCPMC5932718

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