The impact of maintenance oral corticosteroids (OCS) on disease burden and type-2 inflammatory signal in the Wessex Severe Asthma Cohort (WSAC)

Published: Sep 7, 2020
Abstract
Introduction: Maintenance OCS use in severe asthma (SA) is associated with significant side-effects and has the potential to mask the systemic type-2 inflammatory biomarker signal required for initiation of biologic therapies. Method: WSAC is a large published cohort of 342 well characterised SA patients fulfilling the ATS/ERS 2014 definition of SA undertaken prior to the widespread use of biologic treatments. We compared the...
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Title
The impact of maintenance oral corticosteroids (OCS) on disease burden and type-2 inflammatory signal in the Wessex Severe Asthma Cohort (WSAC)
Published Date
Sep 7, 2020
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