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Pulmonary function tests, sputum induction, and bronchial provocation tests: diagnostic tools in the challenge of distinguishing asthma and COPD phenotypes in clinical practice

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Table 2 Patterns of inflammatory markers within clinical diagnosis groups
Table 3 PD20meth and PD20AMP in clinical diagnosis groups
Figure 1 Spearman’s rank correlation: ∆FEV1 and sputum neutrophil count in smoking asthmatics (n = 24).
Figure 2 Spearman’s rank correlation: PD20AMP and sputum neutrophil percentage in COPD patients with reversibility (n = 10) and without reversibility (n = 21).

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