Stability of blood eosinophils during acute exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Qidong Chen, Wei Ji, Hongyu Wang, Jiahui Lin, Tanwei Liu, Jialin Lin, Xu Chen, Xiaoyang Chen · 2025
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Qidong Chen and co-authors check a blood marker during lung disease flare-ups in a 2025 study. Blood eosinophil counts guide steroid inhaler use in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Whether those counts stay stable during a hospital flare-up was uncertain. The team reviews over three thousand hospitalized patients from 2018 to 2023.
Counts vary a lot within the same patient across repeat tests, they find. Many patients cross the key thresholds of one hundred and three hundred cells during one stay. About thirteen percent swing from below the low line to above the high line. The authors urge dynamic reading and retesting, rather than one fixed label.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qidong Chen, Wei Ji, Hongyu Wang, Jiahui Lin, Tanwei Liu, Jialin Lin, Xu Chen, Xiaoyang Chen |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |