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Identification of Asthma Subtypes Using Clustering Methodologies
2016
Pulmonary Therapy
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease comprising a number of subtypes which may be caused by different pathophysiologic mechanisms (sometimes referred to as endotypes) but may share similar observed characteristics (phenotypes). The use of unsupervised clustering in adult and paediatric populations has identified subtypes of asthma based on observable characteristics such as symptoms, lung function, atopy, eosinophilia, obesity, and age of onset. Here we describe different clustering methods and
doi:10.1007/s41030-016-0017-z
pmid:27512723
pmcid:PMC4959136
fatcat:mbuimjxqincbfetomyhdbfcccm