Randomized double-blind comparison of cetirizine and fexofenadine after pollen challenge in the environmental exposure unit: Duration of effect in subjects with seasonal allergic rhinitis

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-68

  Day, James H ^a,c   Briscoe, Maureen P ^a   Rafeiro, Elizabeth ^a   Hewlett Jr , Dial ^b   Chapman, Douglass ^b   Kramer, Benjamin ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETIRIZINE; FEXOFENADINE;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACKACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERANCE; DYSPEPSIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESOPHAGITIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PHARYNGITIS; POLLEN; PROVOCATION TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHINITIS; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CANADA; CETIRIZINE; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERFENADINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1642394844     PISSN: 10885412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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