People acutely ill with asthma have abnormally high, but reversible, acidity in their lungs. This unexpected finding may lead to improved therapies for treating the disease and new ways to predict an attack, says study coauthor Benjamin Gaston of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.
He and his colleagues collected moisture from volunteers’ breath and measured its acidity.
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