Does lung function monitoring play important roles in assessing current asthma control?_Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

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MA Li ¹ , WANG Ji ¹ , KANG Deying ² , ZHANG Hongping ¹ , WANG Lei ¹ ,  WANG Gang ^1,3

1. Pneumology Group, Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P.R.China;
2. Department of Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P.R.China;
3. State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy/Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P.R.China;

Corresponding author：

WANG Gang, Email: wong-gang@126.com

Keywords：

GINA 2009; GINA 2015; Forced expiratory volume in one second; Current asthma control

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10.7507/1671-6205.201611038

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Objective Since 2009, assessment of asthma control in Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) includes current clinical control and future risk. " Current clinical control” is replaced by " symptom control” in GINA 2015, and lung function is excluded from assessment of current clinical control. This study was designed to investigate the agreement in current asthma control assessment between GINA 2009 and 2015, and to explore whether FEV₁ monitoring plays an important role in this context. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients with stable asthma (n=138). The levels of asthma control were graded by GINA 2009 and GINA 2015, respectively. Demographic data, spirometry, exacerbations in the past 12 months, peripheral blood cells, induced sputum were collected. Kappa coefficient was used to measure the agreement of the two asthma control tools. Association of the asthma control levels using the two tools with the exacerbations in the past 12 months was examined by Spearman correlations. Additionally, associations of lung function with the exacerbations in the past 12 months were analyzed. Results Agreement in assessing current asthma control between GINA 2009 and 2015 was moderate (Kappa=0.595, P<0.001). Compared with GINA 2009, the patients with well-controlled asthma assessed by GINA 2015 had worse FEV₁%pred [(89.9±12.9)% vs. (79.9±18.2)%, P=0.013], the partly controlled subjects assessed by GINA 2015 had worse asthma control scores in ACQ-6 score (0.8±0.7 vs. 1.1±0.7, P=0.028) and ACT score (20.7±2.5 vs. 19.4±2.5, P=0.007). Furthermore, asthma control levels assessed by either GINA 2015 or 2009 were related to exacerbations in the past 12 months and stronger relationship was presented in GINA 2015 (r=–0.268 for GINA 2015 vs. r=–0.212 for GINA 2009, respectively). In addition, there were no differences in cell counts in induced sputum or peripheral blood or IgE level in peripheral blood in patients with different asthma control levels assessing by GINA 2009 and 2015. Conclusions Our study indicates that it has a moderate agreement of assessing current asthma control between GINA 2015 and 2009. Compared with GINA 2009, absence of FEV₁ monitoring from GINA 2015 would result in worse lung function in well-controlled asthma and worse asthma control scores in partly controlled asthma. Addition of FEV₁ monitoring to GINA 2015 would weaken the relationship between current asthma control and future asthma outcomes, although it didn't reach statistical significance. Our study supports that GINA 2015 lacking lung function monitoring in current asthma control assessment is applicable in clinical practice.

Citation： MA Li, WANG Ji, KANG Deying, ZHANG Hongping, WANG Lei, WANG Gang. Does lung function monitoring play important roles in assessing current asthma control?. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2017, 16(4): 354-366. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.201611038 Copy

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2. Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) 2009. Available at: http://ginasthma.org.
3. Nathan RA, Sorkness CA, Kosinski M, et al. Development of the Asthma Control Test: a survey for assessing asthma control. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2004, 113(1):59-65.
4. Juniper EF, O’Byrne PM, Guyatt GH, et al. Development and validation of a questionnair to measure asthma control. Eur Respir J, 1999, 14(4):902-907.
5. Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA)2015.Available at: http://ginasthma.org.
6. 中华医学会呼吸病学分会哮喘学组. 支气管哮喘防治指南(支气管哮喘的定义、诊断、治疗和管理方案). 中华结核和呼吸杂志, 2008, 31(3): 177-185.
7. Wang G, Zhou T, Wang L, et al. Relationship between current psychological symptoms and future risk of asthma outcomes: a 12-month prospective cohort study. J Asthma, 2011, 48(10): 1041-1050.
8. Novak N, Bieber T. Allergic and nonallergic forms of atopic diseases. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2003, 112(2): 252-262.
9. Marks GB, Dunn SM, Woolcock AJ. A scale for the measurement of quality of life in adults with asthma. J Clin Epidemiol, 1992, 45(5): 461-472.
10. Pellegrino R, Viegi G, Brusasco V, et al. Interpretative strategies for lung function tests. Eur Respir J, 2005, 26(5):948-968.
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13. Wang G, Baines KJ, Fu JJ, et al. Sputum mast cell subtypes relate to eosinophilia and corticosteroid response in asthma. Eur Respir J, 2016, 47(4):1121-1133.
14. Simpson JL, Phipps S, Baines KJ, et al. Elevated expression of the NLRP3 inflammasome in neutrophilic asthma. Eur Respir J, 2014, 43(4):1067-1076.
15. Simpson JL, McElduff P, Gibson PG. Assessment and reproducibility of non-eosinophilic asthma using induced sputum. Respiration, 2010, 79(2):147-151.
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18. Bailey WC, Higgins DM, Richards BM, et al. Asthma severity: a factor analytic investigation. Am J Med, 1992, 93(3): 263-269.
19. Rosi E, Ronchi MC, Grazzini M, et al. Sputum analysis, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and airway function in asthma: results of a factor analysis. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 1999, 103(2 Pt 1): 232-237.
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27. Melter EO, Busse WW, Wenzel SE, et al. Use of the Asthma Control Questionaire to predict future risk of asthma exacerbation. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2011, 127(1):167-172.
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38. Volbeda F, Broekema M, Lodewijk ME, et al. Clinical control of asthma associates with measures of airway inflammation. Thorax, 2013, 68(1):19-24.

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