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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 158, Number 4, October 1998, 1032-1036

Relationship between Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Childhood Asthma

TIMOTHY L. FRANK, ANIL ADISESH, ANTHONY C. PICKERING, JOHN F. J. MORRISON, TAMSIN WRIGHT, HELEN FRANCIS, ANGELA FLETCHER, PETER I. FRANK, and PHILIP HANNAFORD

North West Lung Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, and Royal College of General Practitioners Manchester Research Unit, Parkway House, Manchester; and Molecular Medicine Unit, St. James University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom

The purpose of the study was to determine if exhaled nitric oxide levels in children varied according to their asthmatic and atopic status. Exhaled nitric oxide was measured in a sample of 93 children attending the North West Lung Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, for the clinical evaluation of a respiratory questionnaire being developed as a screening tool in general practice. The clinical assessment included full lung function, skin prick testing, and exercise challenge. Children were said to be asthmatic either by consensus decision of three independent consultant pediatricians, who reviewed all the clinical results except the nitric oxide measurements, or by positive exercise test. Atopic asthmatic children had higher geometric mean exhaled nitric oxide levels (consensus decision, 12.5 ppb [parts per billion] 95% CI, 8.3 to 18.8; positive exercise test, 12.2 ppb 95% CI, 7.6 to 19.7) than did nonatopic asthmatic children (3.2 ppb 95% CI, 2.3 to 4.6; 3.2 ppb 95% CI, 2.0 to 5.0), atopic nonasthmatic children (3.8 ppb 95% CI, 2.7 to 5.5; 5.7 ppb 95% CI, 4.1 to 8.0), or nonatopic nonasthmatic children (3.4 ppb 95% CI, 2.8 to 4.1; 3.5 ppb 95% CI, 3.0 to 4.1). Thus, exhaled nitric oxide was raised in atopic asthmatics but not in nonatopic asthmatics, and these nonatopic asthmatics had levels of exhaled nitric oxide similar to those of the nonasthmatics whether atopic or not.




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