Adult onset asthma: the first 5 years
- Conditions
- adult onset asthmaasthma10006436
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON33765
- Lead Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 200
- 18 - 75 years
- Patients with adult-onset asthma (i.e. asthma that started after the age of 18)
- Pulmonologist's diagnosis of asthma (from mild persistent to severe persistent )
- Documented reversibility in FEV1 of >9% predicted or airway hyperresponsiveness to inhaled methacholine.
- patients with smoking history > 10 packyears, fixed airflow obstruction (postbronchodilator FEV1 < 80%) ánd reversibitiy in FEV1 < 9% predicted.
- pregnancy
- other pulmonary diseases or non-related major co-morbidities
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>This is a descriptive study, without real outcome parameters. By performing<br /><br>clusteranalysis, several phenotypes of late onset asthma will be defined. </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>n.a.</p><br>