Palma-Carlos A G, Palma-Carlos M L
Medical Clinic, Lisbon University Hospital, Center for Hematology and Imunology-Chiul, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
Allerg Immunol (Paris). 2002 Oct;34(8):274-6.
The currently proposed guidelines and consensus for asthma include Peak expiratory flow (PEF) and forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) as two criteria to classify asthma severity. The report between these functional data and clinical classification degrees has been evaluated in 153 asthmatic patients. Concordance between functional evaluation and clinical degree has been found only for moderate persistent asthma but not for intermittent or mild persistent asthma. These results suggest that the correlation between clinical evaluation and lung function proposed in the guidelines must be reevaluated.
目前提出的哮喘指南和共识将呼气峰值流速（PEF）和第一秒用力呼气量（FEV1）作为哮喘严重程度分类的两个标准。在153例哮喘患者中评估了这些功能数据与临床分类程度之间的关系。仅在中度持续性哮喘中发现功能评估与临床程度之间存在一致性，而在间歇性或轻度持续性哮喘中未发现。这些结果表明，指南中提出的临床评估与肺功能之间的相关性必须重新评估。
