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Lead
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Age
18–55
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
1. healthy control adult subjects (n=10),
2. patients with mild to moderate asthma (n=20) (Table 2, Appendix 4).
A diagnosis of asthma will be defined as episodic airflow obstruction which is reversible (improvement in FEV1 \>12% when measured via spirometry) after administration of a SABA.
You may not be if
1. currently smokers or have been smokers in the past 6 months
2. a diagnosis of COPD, bronchiectasis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, diagnosis of bacterial, fungal, or viral pneumonia in the past 6 months, or other diagnoses of chronic lung disease.
3. subjects being treated with oral systemic corticosteroids for other diseases, those using intranasal steroids in a 2 week period preceding the study, or those requiring an oral corticosteroid burst in the past 6 weeks, or who are receiving treatment with immune modulator medications will also be excluded from the study.
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