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Lead
University Hospital, Lille
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
1. control subjects =
* non-atopic and non-smoking
* cutting to negative pneumoallergens,
* Total IgE levels less than 100 ku / L
* no clinical history of asthma
* without background treatment
2. patients with intermittent asthma =
* being asymptomatic between asthma attacks,
* with symptoms less than once a week
* having a forced expiratory volume per second (FEV1) of at least 80% of the theoretical.
* treated by ß2 mimetics on demand and will not have inhaled corticosteroids.
3. severe asthma insensitive to corticosteroid therapy =
* continuous or nearly continuous treatment with oral corticosteroids (≥ 50% of the year) / or treatment with IC ≥ 1500 microg beclomethasone dipropionate equivalent (BDP)\] airway obstruction fixed with FEV1 ranging from less than 15% after 7 days of oral corticosteroid therapy to 40 mg / day of prednisolone;
* Followed at the immunoallergology pneumology consultation for at least 1 year will be recruited.
4. Severe corticosensitive asthma = continuous or near continuous treatment with oral corticosteroids (≥ 50% of the year) / or treatment with IC ≥ 1500 microg beclomethasone dipropionate equivalent (BDP)\]
* reversibility of FEV1 after treatment with oral corticosteroids.
* Followed at the immunoallergology pneumology consultation for at least 1 year will be recruited.
5. controlled moderate asthma treated with inhaled corticosteroids \<1500μg equivalent of beclomethasone dipropionate and with: ß2 long-acting mimetics (or anti-leukotriene, or theophylline) for at least 6 months.
You may not be if
existence of a chronic inflammatory pathology other than asthma
active smoking
pregnant or lactating women
have received oral corticosteroid treatment in the previous 3 weeks,
have received non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the previous 2 weeks.