Clinical Significance of Asthma Clusters by Longitudinal Analysis in Korean Asthma Cohort

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 and for the COREA Study Group

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-6

Abstract: 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 in a Korean adult asthma cohort was performed to investigate the clinical significance of asthma clusters over 12 months. Conclusion: Our asthma clusters had clinical significance with consistency among clusters over 12 months. These distinctive phenotypes may be useful in classifying asthma in real practice.

Date: 2013
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