PMID- 3505535
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19890301
LR  - 20190919
IS  - 0277-0903 (Print)
IS  - 0277-0903 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 4
DP  - 1987
TI  - Serum IgE levels in adults with asthma.
PG  - 207-13
AB  - Serum total immunoglobulin E (IgE) was measured in 88 normal adults and 100 
      adults with asthma using Phadebas IgE PRIST kits. The geometric mean IgE in our 
      normal subjects was found to be higher than that reported by some investigators 
      but was similar to or lower than that reported by others without showing any 
      geographic pattern. It increased progressively from 92 kU/L in normal controls 
      through 205 kU/L in cases of asthma with low atopic scores to 464 kU/L in asthma 
      cases with high atopic scores. There was wide variation in IgE levels among 
      individuals, making it difficult to use it to classify any subject into one of 
      these groups. However, as a group, female asthmatics had lower mean IgE levels 
      (182 kU/L) than did men (577 kU/L), and a higher proportion of them had low 
      atopic scores (60% of the women versus 47% of the men). This suggests that 
      probably more women had intrinsic asthma, while extrinsic asthma was more common 
      among men in the population studied.
FAU - Abdullah, A K
AU  - Abdullah AK
AD  - Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi 
      Arabia.
FAU - el-Hazmi, M A
AU  - el-Hazmi MA
FAU - Uz-Zaman, A
AU  - Uz-Zaman A
FAU - al-Nozha, M
AU  - al-Nozha M
FAU - Lambourne, A
AU  - Lambourne A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - J Asthma
JT  - The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of 
      Asthma
JID - 8106454
RN  - 37341-29-0 (Immunoglobulin E)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Asthma/blood/*immunology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hypersensitivity/immunology
MH  - Immunoglobulin E/*analysis
MH  - Male
MH  - Sex Characteristics
EDAT- 1987/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1987/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1987/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1987/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1987/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1987/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3109/02770908709070941 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Asthma. 1987;24(4):207-13. doi: 10.3109/02770908709070941.