Does eosinophil activity reflect clinical status in patients with asthma before and during a prednisolone course?
Reduction in eosinophil activity followed improvement in clinical condition. Measuring intracellular expression of ECP may be of value in addition to eosinophil count and S-ECP in monitoring asthma.
IBS is more frequent before diagnosis in people with bacterial gastroenteritis presenting to their primary care physician than in community controls. Studies that examine the rate of IBS after bacterial gastroenteritis need to carefully exclude people with prior IBS in a systematic way.