Hundreds of thousands of Canadian asthma patients may not have the condition after all, based on the findings of a recent study that retested patients across the country.
In Monday's online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Shawn Aaron of the Ottawa Health Research Institute and his colleagues looked at 496 adults from eight Canadian cities — Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax — who received a diagnosis of asthma from a physician.
When participants were retested using clinical guidelines, 30 per cent had no evidence of the chronic disease, the researchers found.
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In Monday's online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Shawn Aaron of the Ottawa Health Research Institute and his colleagues looked at 496 adults from eight Canadian cities — Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax — who received a diagnosis of asthma from a physician.
When participants were retested using clinical guidelines, 30 per cent had no evidence of the chronic disease, the researchers found.
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Have you ever been misdiagnosed for a medical condition? Tell us about it.
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