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    Association of Cough Severity with Asthma Control and Quality of Life in Patients with Severe Asthma

    Symptoms are important components in determining asthma control and in the adjustment of treatment levels. However, clinical relevance of cough in severe asthma is not well-understood. This study aimed to eval...

    Hwa Young Lee, Youngsoo Lee, Ji-Hyang Lee, Seung-Eun Lee, Da Woon Sim, Noeul Kang in Lung (2024)

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    Predictors of Early and Late Lung Function Improvement in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma on Type2-Biologics in the PRISM Study

    The determinants linked to the short- and long-term improvement in lung function in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA) on biological treatment (BioT) remain elusive.

    Duong Duc Pham, Ji-Hyang Lee, Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Woo-Jung Song, You Sook Cho in Lung (2024)

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    Different Impacts of Blood and Sputum Eosinophil Counts on Lung Function and Clinical Outcomes in Asthma: Findings from the COREA Cohort

    Blood (EOS-B) and sputum (EOS-S) eosinophil counts may contribute differently to asthma pathogenesis. We compared the impact of the baseline EOS-B and EOS-S levels on lung function, asthma control, and exacerb...

    Duong Duc Pham, Ji-Hyang Lee, Ju-Young Kim, ** An, Woo-Jung Song, Hyouk-Soo Kwon in Lung (2022)

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    Cough Presentation and Cough-Related Healthcare Utilization in Tertiary Care: Analysis of Routinely Collected Academic Institutional Database

    Routinely collected data (RCD) from electronic health records (EHR) are useful for studying disease epidemiology in the real world. We examined cough presentation and cough-related healthcare utilization using...

    ** An, Ji-Hyang Lee, Ha-Kyeong Won, Yewon Kang, Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Jae-Seung Lee in Lung (2022)

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    International severe asthma registry (ISAR): protocol for a global registry

    Severe asthma exerts a disproportionately heavy burden on patients and health care. Due to the heterogeneity of the severe asthma population, many patients need to be evaluated to understand the clinical featu...

    J. Mark FitzGerald, Trung N. Tran, Marianna Alacqua in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2020)

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    IL-32γ attenuates airway fibrosis by modulating the integrin-FAK signaling pathway in fibroblasts

    Fibrosis in severe asthma often leads to irreversible organ dysfunction. However, the mechanism that regulates fibrosis remains poorly understood. Interleukin (IL)-32 plays a role in several chronic inflammato...

    Gyong Hwa Hong, So-Young Park, Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Bo-Ram Bang in Respiratory Research (2018)

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    XXIV World Allergy Congress 2015

    A1 Pirfenidone inhibits TGF-b1-induced extracellular matrix production in nasal polyp-derived fibroblasts

    Heung-Man Lee, Il-Ho Park, Jae-Min Shin in World Allergy Organization Journal (2016)

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    Allergic diseases of the skin and drug allergies – 2030. Validation of cephalosporin skin test for prediciting immediate hypersensitivity: interim analysis

    Sun-Young Yoon, So Young Park, Sujeong Kim in World Allergy Organization Journal (2013)

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    Identification of Subtypes of Refractory Asthma in Korean Patients by Cluster Analysis

    Refractory asthma, a subtype of asthma with uncontrolled symptoms despite antiasthma medications, is a heterogeneous syndrome with variable clinical features, presumably different etiologies, and pathophysiolo...

    An Soo Jang, Hyouk-Soo Kwon, You Sook Cho, Yun Jeong Bae, Tae Bum Kim in Lung (2013)

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    Clinical characteristics that distinguish eosinophilic organ infiltration from metastatic nodule development in cancer patients with eosinophilia

    When new space-occupying lesions are observed together with peripheral blood eosinophilia in patients diagnosed with cancer, the possibility of eosinophilic organ involvement should be differentiated from meta...

    Taehoon Lee, Yoon Su Lee, Sun Young Yoon in World Journal of Surgical Oncology (2012)

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    Smoking, longer disease duration and absence of rhinosinusitis are related to fixed airway obstruction in Koreans with severe asthma: findings from the COREA study

    The clinical manifestations of severe asthma are heterogeneous. Some individuals with severe asthma develop irreversible fixed airway obstruction, which is associated with poor outcomes. We therefore investiga...

    Taehoon Lee, Yoon Su Lee, Yun-Jeong Bae, Tae-Bum Kim, Seon Ok Kim in Respiratory Research (2011)

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    Alpha-lipoic acid suppresses the development of collagen-induced arthritis and protects against bone destruction in mice

    To test the ability of alpha-lipoic acid (LA) to attenuate the development of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in mice.

    Eun Young Lee, Chang-Keun Lee, Ki-Up Lee, Joong Yeol Park in Rheumatology International (2007)

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    Serum oxidized low-density lipoproteins in rheumatoid arthritis

    The aim of this study was to measure serum oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL) levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to identify any association with...

    Seong-Ho Kim, Chang-Keun Lee, Eun Young Lee, So Yeon Park in Rheumatology International (2004)