Bronchial asthma; duration of asthma is not correlated with total anti oxidant capacity and lung function parameters

ABSTRACT

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, which is associated with excessive airway narrowing in response to stimuli that have little or no effect on healthy subjects. Airway hyper-responsiveness with a short duration of asthma is coupled with airway inflammation which may or may not be associated with lung impairment