Effect of inhaled corticosteroids on episodes of wheezing associated with viral infection in school age children: Randomised double blind placebo controlled trial

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7112, 1997, Pages 858-862

  Doull, Iolo J M ^a,b   Lampe, Fiona C ^a   Smith, Sandra ^a   Schreiber, Jaqueline ^a   Freezer, Nicholas J ^a   Holgate, Stephen T ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; CORTICOSTEROID; METHACHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INHALER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WHEEZING;

EID: 0030883556     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7112.858     Document Type: Article

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