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    Efficacy of budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy compared with higher-dose budesonide as step-up from low-dose inhaled corticosteroid treatment

    Asthma management may involve a step up in treatment when symptoms are not well controlled. We examined whether budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy (MRT) is as effective as higher, fixed-dos...

    Christine R. Jenkins, Göran Eriksson, Eric D. Bateman in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2017)

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    Mechanisms and Management of Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction

    The term “exercise-induced asthma” has been used to describe the transient narrowing of the airways and the subsequent increase in airway resistance, which can occur during, though more commonly following, vig...

    John D. Brannan, Paul M. O'Byrne in Allergy Frontiers: Therapy and Prevention (2010)

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    Future Trends in the Use of Corticosteroids in Asthma

    Corticosteroids have been used to treat a variety of airway diseases since the early 1950s, following an initial study of Carryer et al. [1], who reported the benefits of oral cortisone on ragweed pollen-induc...

    Paul M. O’Byrne in Asthma: Epidemiology, Anti-Inflammatory Therapy and Future Trends (2000)