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Keep this study
Lead
University of Kentucky
Age
18–35
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients need to be pregnant to participate in the study.
Patients need to be aged 18 to 35 to participate in the study.
Smokers must have smoked over 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke 5 or more cigarettes per day.
Asthmatics must be diagnosed with asthma and have a current prescription for an asthma medication such as albuterol or an inhaled steroid.
You may not be if
Nonsmokers
Cannot have smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime or currently smoke.
Cannot have any other lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema (COPD), lung cancer, liver disease, cystic fibrosis or other significant respiratory diseases.
Cannot have been treated with oral steroids or had a respiratory infection in the 4 weeks before study entry.
Cannot have another illness that can significantly affect quality of life (such as depression or cancer).
Smokers
Cannot have any other lung diseases such as emphysema (COPD), lung cancer, liver disease, cystic fibrosis or other significant respiratory diseases.
Cannot have been treated with oral steroids or had a respiratory infection in the 4 weeks before study entry.
Cannot have another illness that can significantly affect quality of life (such as depression or cancer).
Asthmatics
Patients in the asthma group cannot have taken theophylline (Theo-24, Theolair, Uniphyl) within 6 months of this study.
Asthmatics cannot have smoked over 100 cigarettes in their lifetime or be current smokers.
Cannot have any other lung diseases such as emphysema (COPD), lung cancer, liver disease, cystic fibrosis or other significant respiratory diseases.
Cannot have been treated with oral steroids or had a respiratory infection in the 4 weeks before study entry.
Cannot have another illness that can significantly affect quality of life (such as depression or cancer).
All Subjects
All subjects will be required to avoid antihistamines for 5 days prior to skin testing (can cause false negative results).
All subjects will be required to avoid food, drink, exercise, and smoking 1 hour prior to exhaled nitric oxide measurement (could falsely increase or decrease levels), and will need to avoid foods that have a high nitrate content for 24 hours prior to exhaled nitric oxide measurement.
