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We enrolled 176 children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 18 years, who visited for the evaluation of chronic cough, shortness of breath, and wheezing. Among them, 138 patients who underwent skin prick tests or inhalation Immuno CAP (UniCAP; Pharmacia, Uppsala, Sweden) tests for allergy testing together with a pulmonary function test were included. FeNO was measured using a NIOX MINO (Aerocrine AB, Solna, Sweden) instrument according to the American Thoracic Society\/European Respiratory Society (ATS\/ERS) guidelines. There were 29 patients with asthma, 43 with rhinitis, and 38 with asthma and allergic rhinitis. In the asthma group, FeNO levels significantly correlated with total immunoglobulin E (r = 0.572, p &lt; 0.001), but did not show significant correlation with pulmonary function test parameters (forced vital capacity\u2014FVC, forced expiratory volume in one second\u2014FEV1, FEV1\/FVC) or PC20 (provocative concentration of methacholine causing a 20% fall in FEV1). The FeNO cutoff values obtained in the asthma and asthma rhinitis groups were 16.5 ppb and 18.5 ppb, respectively. Hence, we provide a FeNO cutoff value according to the presence or absence of rhinitis in pediatric patients with asthma.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/children8010003","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,23]],"date-time":"2020-12-23T08:38:43Z","timestamp":1608712723000},"page":"3","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Evaluation of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pediatric Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Yoon Young","family":"Jang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, Daegu 42472, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2045-1629","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji Young","family":"Ahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu 38541, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"424","DOI":"10.3345\/kjp.2013.56.10.424","article-title":"Measurements of fractional exhaled nitric oxide in pediatric asthma","volume":"56","author":"Hahn","year":"2013","journal-title":"Korean J. 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