Low-dose budesonide for asthma

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9363, 2003, Pages 1066-1067

  Tattersfield, Anne E ^a   Harrison, Tim W ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NOTE; POWDER INHALER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAPSE;

EID: 0037471804     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12899-1     Document Type: Note

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