Introduction: Asthma is a chronic inftammation disease, controlled asthma is a goal in management of asthma patients which essential as a parameter of successful therapy. To assessing controlled asthma the asthma control of patient accurately in a busy asthma clinic with limited time and resources is always a challenging to the clinician. Asthma Control Test (ACT) as a tool to assess of control…
Study objective: To investigate wheter combination of steroid (fiuticasone) and long acting 13, agonist (salmeterol) inhalation better than budesonide inhalation to control moderate persistent asthma by evaluation with Asthma Control Test and FEV, Design: Clinical trial with randomized pretest-postlest comparative group design ~ Se.tting: Moderate persistent asthma due to the GINA 2005 cr…
Introduction. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder. DM affects various organs of human body. Hyperglycaemic state can reduce lung function by decreasing elastin proteins and lung surfactans. Moreover, it can cause diffusion perfusion disorders. Haemoglobin A 1 c (HbA,ol describes previous 3 months of patient's glycaemic state. HbA" is a gold standard to determine controlled and uncont…
Gastroesophageal reflux diseases (GERD) close associated with any symptoms and airways disorders including chronic cough and asthma. The prevalence of GERD in asthma patients still unclear, approximately 34-89%. In many studies showed that approximately 55-82% asthma patients had GERD symptoms. Endoscopy finding from asthma patients showed that esophagitis prevalence is approximately 27-43%. Th…
The individual parameters to define asthma seventy and asthma control overlap significantly. Validated measures, such as ACT, ACS, ACO, for assessing asthma control are now available, but no comparison among the existing measures has been performed. This study aimed to assess the corrrelation between ACT and ACS either before of after inhaled corticossteroid (ICS). This was a cohort study. Samp…