Interrelation Between Bronchial Asthma and Smoking

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 0000-00-00
• Target enrollment: 104
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Smoking occurs frequently in patients with asthma. Recent surveys on smoking prevalence report 21-26% current smokers in populations of patients with asthma. Detrimental effects of active smoking in asthma include worse asthma control, an impaired response to corticosteroids and accelerated lung function decline.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Last Updated: 2017-07-03

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All asthmatic patients (however smokers ,or non-smokers) will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Acute severe asthma.

• Causes of airway obstruction other than asthma as COPD patients, bronchiectasis, ...etc.