Higher Sweat Chloride Levels in Patients with Asthma: A Case-Control Study

Objectives To screen asthmatic patients by sweat chloride test to identify proportion with Cystic Fibrosis (CF); (Sweat chloride level >60 mmol/L). Also, to compare sweat chloride levels between cases of bronchial asthma and age and sex matched healthy children aged 5 mo–15 y.