Approach to Predict Steroid Sensitivity in Patients With Asthma

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. currently smokers or have been smokers in the past 6 months
• •2. a diagnosis of COPD, bronchiectasis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, diagnosis of bacterial, fungal, or viral pneumonia in the past 6 months, or other diagnoses of chronic lung disease.
• •3. subjects being treated with oral systemic corticosteroids for other diseases, those using intranasal steroids in a 2 week period preceding the study, or those requiring an oral corticosteroid burst in the past 6 weeks, or who are receiving treatment with immune modulator medications will also be excluded from the study.