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SUBMITTER: Park SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3877049 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Park So Young SY Baek Seunghee S Kim Sujeong S Yoon Sun-Young SY Kwon Hyouk-Soo HS Chang Yoon-Seok YS Cho You Sook YS Jang An-Soo AS Park Jung Won JW Nahm Dong-Ho DH Yoon Ho-Joo HJ Cho Sang-Heon SH Cho Young-Joo YJ Choi ByoungWhui B Moon Hee-Bom HB Kim Tae-Bum TB
PloS one 20131231 12
<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods and results</h4>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. Cluster A showed relatively high asthma control test (ACT) scores ...[more]