Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lung, characterised by repetitive dyspnea (wheezing) with various severity and frequeny in every patient. To diagnose asthma, there are several diagnostic tests. NLR is an important laboratory test because it is always available, economically effective, and can be counted easily. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of NLR to diagnose asthma, and to analyze the sensitivity and specificity of NLR.
Method: This cross-sectional study uses medical records of 74 asthma samples and 155 non-asthma samples. The statistical analysis that was used in this research is T-Test.
Result: This study shows that the median (1.62) and mean (1.73) score of NLR in asthma is slightly higher than non-asthma (mean 1.6; median 1.72), but the difference is not statistically significant (p=0.0949). NLR and its correlation with other chronic inflammation indicator (eosinofil, Hb, LED, Leucocyte, and Eritrocyte) is also analyzed, and the result shows that it only correlates with leucocyte.
Conclusion: NLR has no role to diagnose asthma, therefore |