Clinical significance of asthma clusters by longitudinal analysis in Korean asthma cohort.

BACKGROUND: We have previously identified four distinct groups of asthma patients in KOREAN cohorts using cluster analysis: (A) smoking asthma, (B) severe obstructive asthma, (C) early-onset atopic asthma, and (D) late-onset mild asthma. METHODS AND RESULTS: A longitudinal analysis of each cluster i...

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Main Authors: So Young Park, Seunghee Baek, Sujeong Kim, Sun-Young Yoon, Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Yoon-Seok Chang, You Sook Cho, An-Soo Jang, Jung Won Park, Dong-Ho Nahm, Ho-Joo Yoon, Sang-Heon Cho, Young-Joo Cho, ByoungWhui Choi, Hee-Bom Moon, Tae-Bum Kim, COREA Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3877049?pdf=render