Abstract:Background. Asthma is a disease that combines different biological mechanisms, inflammatory pathways, and phenotypic features. Our aim was to investigate the demographic and disease characteristics of patients with asthma and to reveal the distribution with different phenotypes according to endotype groups. Methods. Patients were identified as eosinophilic if the absolute eosinophil count was measured at least once ≥ 300/μL during the oral corticosteroid free period or ≥ 150/μL under oral corticosteroids. Pati… Show more
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