Short-term growth and adrenal function in children with asthma treated with inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate hydroflouroalkane-134a

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 613-619

  Wolthers, O D ^a  

^a Children's Clinic Randers   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adrenal function; Beclomethasone; Glucocorticoids; Growth; Knemometry

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BUDESONIDE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; HYDROCORTISONE; NORFLURANE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BECLOMETHASONE; CHILD; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS, METHANE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEG; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751256250     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2006.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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