ReviewChronic respiratory disease
The diagnosis of asthma. Can physiological tests of small airways function help?
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Can measures of small airway dysfunction aid with the diagnosis or management of asthma exacerbations? A systematic review.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Pooled it
- Distal Airway Inflammation Is Linked to Small Airway Dysfunction in Asthma.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Observational
- Formononetin as a potential therapeutic agent for asthma: evidence from in vivo and in vitro models of attenuated inflammation via cAMP/PKA pathway inhibition.In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal · 2026Article
- Combining co-expression analysis and machine learning to explore the diagnostic value of complement and coagulation cascade-related genes in asthma and the functional role of SERPINB2.Briefings in functional genomics · 2026Article
- Examining the diagnostic validity of the ISAAC asthma questionnaire among participants from Singapore and Malaysia.Asia Pacific allergy · 2025Article
- Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Alleviates Airway Inflammation in Asthmatic Rats by Increasing the Level of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in the Intestine.Inflammation · 2025Article
- Airway hyperresponsiveness to mannitol in relation to inspiratory and expiratory resistance in subjects with asthma, COPD, and healthy smokers.European clinical respiratory journal · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Potential of Oscillometry: A Population-based Approach.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Article
- Construction of a Diagnostic Algorithm for Diagnosis of Adult Asthma Using Machine Learning with Random Forest and XGBoost.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Long-term variability of impulse oscillometry and spirometry in stable COPD and asthma.Respiratory research · 2022Article
- Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratios in blood to distinguish children with asthma exacerbation from healthy subjects.International journal of immunopathology and pharmacologyArticle
- CRD Editor's corner archive: October-December.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
- Role of oscillometry to diagnose obstructive airway diseases in patients who are unable to perform spirometry correctly.Medical journal, Armed Forces IndiaArticle
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Asthma is a common, chronic, and heterogeneous disease with a global impact and substantial economic costs. It is also associated with significant mortality and morbidity and the burden of undiagnosed asthma is significant. Asthma can be difficult to diagnose as there is no gold standard test and, while spirometry is central in diagnosing asthma, it may not be sufficient to confirm or exclude the diagnosis. The most commonly reported spirometric measures (forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV
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