Changing the asthma treatment paradigm?
NEJM 5/17/07- I can’t help but wonder if this is a “welcome mat for new drug cocktail” study. Papi et al in the BEST study group publish a paper showing that using a steroid inhaler on an as-needed basis might be just as good as twice daily use.
The double-blind, double dummy design seems pretty robust, although makes the data a little complicated. In short – all subjects took a regular inhaler twice daily, plus an as-needed inhaler – the design just varied what was in the inhalers among groups. The most relevant comparison was – twice daily beclamethasone plus rescue albuterol (old sko...
Source: Consider The Evidence: Med/Peds Journal Roundup - May 19, 2007 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: medblog Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
