C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor for Airway Hyper-Responsiveness

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: blood sampling

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01002144

CRPAHR - CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Increased serum high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) has been associated with airway inflammation in asthma and may serve as a surrogate marker for the presence of airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) in this set-up. This study was designed to evaluate the predictive value of hs-CRP for AHR assessed by metacholine challenge test (MCT), in adults with suspected Asthma.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• subjects that were referred to Metacholine challenge test

Exclusion criteria

• age < 18