| Title: |
Characterisation of patients with severe asthma in the UK Severe Asthma Registry in the biologic era. |
| Authors: |
Jackson, David J; Busby, John; Pfeffer, Paul E; Menzies-Gow, Andrew; Brown, Thomas; Gore, Robin; Doherty, Martin; Mansur, Adel H; Message, Simon; Niven, Robert; Patel, Mitesh; Heaney, Liam G; UK Severe Asthma Registry |
| Publisher Information: |
BMJ; //doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215168; Thorax |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
asthma epidemiology; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; 80 and over; Asthma; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Registries; Severity of Illness Index; Societies; Medical; United Kingdom; Young Adult |
| Description: |
BACKGROUND: The UK Severe Asthma Registry (UKSAR) is the world's largest national severe asthma registry collecting standardised data on referrals to UK specialist services. Novel biologic therapies have transformed the management of type 2(T2)-high severe asthma but have highlighted unmet need in patients with persisting symptoms despite suppression of T2-cytokine pathways with corticosteroids. METHODS: Demographic, clinical and treatments characteristics for patients meeting European Respiratory Society / American Thoracic Society severe asthma criteria were examined for 2225 patients attending 15 specialist severe asthma centres. We assessed differences in biomarker low patients (fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf; text/xml |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315386 |
| DOI: |
10.17863/CAM.62493 |
| Availability: |
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315386; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.62493 |
| Rights: |
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F27BF18F |
| Database: |
BASE |