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                                Chapter 4
Results
One hundred and seventy-three patients participated in the study. Of these, 136 patients had assessments performed at baseline and at 12 weeks treatment, and were included in the analysis (Figure 1). Thirty-seven patients were only assessed at baseline, but not at 12 weeks for variable reasons: 32 patients achieved control of asthma and were discharged home before 12 weeks and 5 had the high altitude treatment discontinued for personal reasons. There were no differences in baseline characteristics between patients who did and did not finish the study (data not shown).
Baseline characteristics are shown in Table 1. Changes from baseline in the 5 main outcomes are shown in Table 2.
Figure 1. Flow diagram of subjects’ progress through the study
Legend figure 1. Number of patients who were screened, enrolled and completed the study.
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