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## Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis (crs) and asthma describe inflammation of the upper and lower airway, respectively. not surprisingly, the prevalence of crs and asthma has been linked, with up to 50% asthma prevalence in crs with nasal polyposis (crswnp) patients. however, these prevalence rates do not address subtypes of crswnp including allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (afrs). this study sets out to objectively determine asthma prevalence in crs subtypes prospectively. ## Methods: A prospective prevalence study of adult crs patients was conducted over a 1-year period at a tertiary care center. patients were grouped into crswnp, crs without nasal polyposis (crssnp), or afrs. patients were administered the asthma screening questionnaire (asq) and asthma was confirmed by pulmonary function testing (pft) if positive on the asq. chi square analysis was performed to compare the asthma prevalence among the crs subtypes. ## Results: A total of 410 patients (age 48.1 ± 16.4; 53.5% male) were included. of these, 178 (43.4%) had crswnp, 166 (40.5%) had crssnp, and 66 (16.1%) met criteria for afrs. analysis revealed that 48.3% of crswnp patients, 16.5% of crssnp patients, and 23.6% of afr

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Author

Chakapan Promsopa; Sagar Kansara; Martin J. Citardi; Samer Fakhri; Paul Porter; Amber Luong

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)