In tests on seven people with nocturnal asthma, 13 non-nocturnal asthmatics and 11 non-asthmatics, lungfunctiontests revealed that patients with nocturnal asthma had the highest levels of melatonin and the greatest drop in lungfunction overnight.
If NSI can obtain all the data on the screening programs, particularly data from easily manipulated lung-function tests, Brickman said, it might be able to prove a coordinated scheme to extract fraudulent settlements.