Severe life threatening asthma
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Risk of severe life threatening asthma.
There have been many components to the debate on the safety of 12 agonists but one of the most important has been the interpretation of the New Zealand studies investigating associations between asthma death and the use of the inhaled P2 agonist fenoterol. In 1976 a striking rise in the death rate from asthma occurred in New Zealand' and many studies have been performed to try and unravel the c...
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BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that a particular inhaled beta agonist, fenoterol, increases the incidence of severe life threatening asthma. METHODS A retrospective cohort was assembled comprising 655 patients with asthma aged 15-55 years who attended a single Auckland hospital for acute asthma between 1 January 1986 and 31 December 1987 (the "index event"). Patients...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.56.11.897b