Description
The purpose of this study is to characterize participants in the BE WELL trial of a life-style modification, weight loss intervention trial in patients with poorly controlled asthma in terms of their atopy phenotype and serum periostin and 8-isoprostane levels in exhaled breath condensate at baseline and follow-up, and to maintain and utilize the BE WELL serum bank for the purpose of better understanding the relation between asthma control and both obesity and weight loss.
Co-Investigators/Collaborators: John Matthews, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, and Cecile Holweg, PhD, Genentech; Carlos Camargo, Jr., MD, Dr PH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Anne Dixon, MA, BM, BCh, University of Vermont Lung Center and College of Medicine; Sally Wenzel, MD, University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute and School of Medicine.
Co-Investigators/Collaborators: John Matthews, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, and Cecile Holweg, PhD, Genentech; Carlos Camargo, Jr., MD, Dr PH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Anne Dixon, MA, BM, BCh, University of Vermont Lung Center and College of Medicine; Sally Wenzel, MD, University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute and School of Medicine.
Funder
Sutter Health and Palo Alto Medical Foundation
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