Lower amounts of sphingolipids in nasal fluid may indicate childhood asthma

WASHINGTON — Airway sphingolipids were detected in small volumes of nasal fluid taken from children with asthma, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.Nasal fluids therefore may be useful in assessing a sphingolipid endotype of asthma, Zena Solomon, MD, a second-year pulmonology fellow in the department of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine,

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