The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology
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J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. · Aug 2009
Randomized Controlled TrialAsthma morbidity among inner-city adolescents receiving guidelines-based therapy: role of predictors in the setting of high adherence.
With the expanding effort to provide guidelines-based therapy to adolescents with asthma, attention must be directed to evaluating which factors predict future asthma control when guidelines-based management is applied. ⋯ Our findings demonstrate that the usual predictors of future disease activity have little predictive power when applied to a highly adherent population with persistent asthma that is receiving guidelines-based care. Thus, new predictors need to be identified that will be able to measure the continued fluctuation of disease that persists in highly adherent, well-treated populations such as the one studied.