Improvement in symptoms and pulmonary function of asthmatic patients due to their treatment according to the Global Strategy for Asthma Management (GINA)

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boskabady, Mohammad H ^a   Rezaeitalab, Fariba ^a   Rahimi, Najmah ^a   Dehnavi, Damon ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE; METHYLXANTHINE; SALBUTAMOL; THEOPHYLLINE; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIROMETRY; THEOPHYLLINE;

EID: 60649108429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-26     Document Type: Article

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