Anna Freeman, Steevo Abraham, Latha Kadalayil, Judit Varkonyi-Sepp CPsychol, Ben Ainsworth, J J Hudson-Colby, Clair Barber, Paddy Dennison, Adnan Azim, Heena Mistry, Peter Howarth, Ratko Djukanovic, Hongmei Zhang, S Hasan Arshad, Hans Michael Haitchi, Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy
BACKGROUND: Breathing pattern disorder (BPD) reflects altered biomechanical patterns of breathing that drive breathing difficulty and commonly accompanies difficult-to-treat asthma. Diagnosis of BPD has no gold standard, but Nijmegen Questionnaire (NQ) >23 is commonly used. OBJECTIVES: We sought to advance clinical characterisation of BPD and better understand clinical utility of NQ in difficult asthma, in patients from the Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma (WATCH) study...
November 28, 2023: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice