The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 121, Issue 3 , Pages 705-709 , March 2008

Exhaled nitric oxide distinguishes between subgroups of preschool children with respiratory symptoms

  • Alexander Moeller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Pediatric Respiratory Research Group and Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Alexander Moeller, MD, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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  • Corinne Diefenbacher, MD

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Pediatric Respiratory Research Group and Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Andrea Lehmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Pediatric Respiratory Research Group and Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Mascha Rochat, MD

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Pediatric Respiratory Research Group and Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Joanne Brooks-Wildhaber, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Alpine Children's Hospital, Davos, Switzerland
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  • Graham L. Hall, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and School of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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  • Johannes H. Wildhaber, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Swiss Pediatric Respiratory Research Group and Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Received 6 May 2007 ,Revised 30 October 2007 ,Accepted 1 November 2007.

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    Levels of exhaled NO in infants and children with nonwheezy or wheezy respiratory symptoms. The median is the line bisecting the box, the box limits represent 25th and 75th percentiles, and whiskers e

    Levels of exhaled NO in infants and children with nonwheezy or wheezy respiratory symptoms. The median is the line bisecting the box, the box limits represent 25th and 75th percentiles, and whiskers extend to the 10th and 90th percentile. The black dots represent outliers.

 Supported by an unrestricted grant by GlaxoSmithKline Switzerland.

 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: The authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

PII: S0091-6749(07)02219-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.11.008

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 121, Issue 3 , Pages 705-709 , March 2008

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