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ABSTRACTS<br />

PNEUMOLOGY / NEUMONOLOGÍA<br />

P-10-25 | ASTHMA CONTROL TEST TM (ACT) SCORES<br />

CORRELATIONS IN COMORBIDITIES<br />

Gemicioglu B, Dogan I, Musellim B, Guven K.<br />

Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Pulmonary<br />

Diseases. Turkey<br />

Asthma Control TestTM (ACT) is a validated practical questionnaire to understand asthma control<br />

in asthmatics. Comorbidities in asthma patients become important problem in asthma<br />

control. The correlation of ACT with different comorbidities was evaluated in this study to<br />

demostrate the usefulness of ACT in follow-up of asthma patients also with comorbidities.<br />

ACT, pulmonary functions was measured in 294 (70.7%) female, 122 (29.3%) male persistent<br />

asthma patients on combined therapy, with a mean age of 41.8±13.9. All patients responded<br />

prepared comorbities questionnaire.<br />

74.6% were nonsmokers, 42.6% were skin prick test positive. During past year only 16.8% of<br />

them had emergency room visit and 5.8% was hospitalized.<br />

Mean FEV1 was 2.4±0.9 lt (%83.4±19.3). Mean ACT was 19±5.2. In only 55% ACT was above<br />

20; that means controlled.<br />

ACT scores were positively correlated with FEV1 (r=-0.22; p=0.001). But FeNO levels were<br />

not correlated with FEV1. Hospitalization and emergency room visit last year decrease significantly<br />

ACT scores (p

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