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- Title
Drug use and pulmonary death rates in increasingly symptomatic asthma patients in the UK.
- Authors
Meier, C R; Jick, H
- Abstract
There is concern about an increase in deaths from respiratory causes in asthma patients using long acting beta agonists. According to the guidelines of the British Thoracic Society, long acting beta agonists, ipratropium bromide, and theophylline should be used to treat patients with increasing asthma severity who are already receiving treatment with short acting beta agonists and inhaled steroids. A study was therefore undertaken to compare the characteristics and short term respiratory mortality rates in first time users of one of these three drugs.
- Publication
Thorax, 1997, Vol 52, Issue 7, p612
- ISSN
0040-6376
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/thx.52.7.612