Asthma

Inhaled steroids could be new option for mild disease

Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, April 16th, 2003

Results of a large international study provide strong evidence that inhaled steroids could substantially reduce illness associated with mild asthma.

Previous research has not established whether steroids could be effective in controlling mild asthma, mainly because people with moderate disease symptoms were included in earlier studies. Romain Pauwels from Ghent's University Hospital, Belgium, and colleagues, did a randomized clinical trial in more than 7,200 patients age 5-66 years from 32 countries to assess the effects of the steroid budesonide in patients with mild asthma. Their findings were published in the Lancet.

Asthma onset had to...

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Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2003-04-16)

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