Clinical and pulmonary function changes in cough variant asthma with small airway disease

Abstract

In our cohort, nearly half of the CVA population had small airway disease. Their demographic features, clinical characteristics, airway eosinophils and drug responsiveness were quite similar between two groups, which means these indices can not be used as markers to identify small airway obstruction. We found FEF_50% is an easy and feasible marker for early identification. Regular anti-asthmatic medication helped to improve clinical scores in patients with small airway disease, but the obstruction could not be reversed over 1-year period.