Drug use and pulmonary death rates in increasingly symptomatic asthma patients in the UK

Thorax

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 612-617

  Meier, Christoph R ^a   Jick, Hershel ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Death; Respiratory disease; Salmeterol

Indexed keywords

IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; SALMETEROL; STEROID; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030837679     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.52.7.612     Document Type: Article

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