Influence of cigarette smoking on inhaled corticosteroid treatment in mild asthma

Thorax

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 226-230

  Chalmers, G W ^a   Macleod, K J ^a   Little, S A ^a   Thomson, L J ^a   McSharry, C P ^a   Thomson, N C ^a  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTININE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL COUNT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANDROSTADIENES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; SMOKING; SPUTUM;

EID: 0036187872     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.57.3.226     Document Type: Article

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