Salmeterol powder compared with albuterol aerosol as maintenance therapy for asthma in adolescent and adult patients

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 270-282

  Kemp, James ^a   Wolfe, James ^b   Grady, James ^c   LaForce, Craig ^d   Stahl, Edmundo ^e   Arledge, Teresa ^e   Liddle, Roger ^e  

^a ALLERGY AND ASTHMA MEDICAL GROUP AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Allergy & Asthma Associates of Northern California   (United States)

^c Boulder Medical Center   (United States)

^d North Carolina Clinical Research Inc   (United States)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Albuterol; Asthma therapy; Placebo; Salmeterol xinafoate powder

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; PLACEBO; SALBUTAMOL; SALMETEROL XINAFOATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSOL; AGITATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METERED DOSE INHALER; PHARYNGITIS; POWDER INHALER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TACHYCARDIA; TREMOR;

EID: 0031744996     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-2918(98)80090-8     Document Type: Article

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