The START study: When to start to treat with inhaled steroids in asthma?

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-225

  Antoniu, Sabina A ^a  

^a Clinic of Pulmonary Disease   (Romania)

Author keywords

Asthma morbidity; Budesonide; Inhaled steroids; Mild asthma

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LACTOSE; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG USE; FEVER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH RATE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJURY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0037666231     PISSN: 14737167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737167.3.3.223     Document Type: Article

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