Anti-Asthmatic Agents - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Compatibility and aerosol characteristics of formoterol fumarate mixed with other nebulizing solutions.

29 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often given admixtures of nebulizable drugs to minimize the time of administration in treatment regimens. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the physicochemical compatibility and ... Read more...

Modifiable risk factors for suboptimal control and controller medication underuse among children with asthma.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: Our aims were (1) to describe rates of suboptimal control and controller medication underuse in a diverse population of children with asthma and (2) to identify potentially modifiable parental behaviors and beliefs associated with these ... Read more...

Brief-interval telephone surveys of medication adherence and asthma symptoms in the Childhood Asthma Management Program Continuation Study.

29 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Although it is known that most patients do not consistently take controller medications every day, the impact of nonadherence on asthma control is not well documented. OBJECTIVE: To establish the relationship between medication ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Anti-Asthmatic Agents'

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• Compatibility and aerosol characteristics of formoterol fumarate mixed with other nebulizing solutions. 29 Sep 2008
• Modifiable risk factors for suboptimal control and controller medication underuse among children with asthma. 29 Sep 2008
• Brief-interval telephone surveys of medication adherence and asthma symptoms in the Childhood Asthma Management Program Continuation Study. 29 Sep 2008
• An evaluation of patients' willingness to trade symptom-free days for asthma-related treatment risks: a discrete choice experiment. 29 Sep 2008
• Deterioration in asthma control when subjects receiving fluticasone propionate/salmeterol 100/50 mcg Diskus are "stepped-down". 29 Sep 2008
• Premenstrual asthma: prevalence, cycle-to-cycle variability and relationship to oral contraceptive use and menstrual symptoms. 29 Sep 2008
• Ciclesonide (Alvesco)-a new inhaled corticosteroid for asthma. 20 Sep 2008
• Severe childhood asthma: a common international approach? 18 Sep 2008
• New targets for drug development in asthma. 18 Sep 2008
• [Asthma during pregnancy] 14 Sep 2008
• Determination of sodium cromoglycate in human plasma by liquid chromatography with tandem mass. 30 Aug 2008
• Strategies to screen for adrenal suppression in children with asthma: there is no consensus among UK centres. 30 Aug 2008
• Advancing analytic methods to understand asthma control and disease morbidity. 30 Aug 2008
• Diagnosis and management of work-related asthma: American College of Chest Physicians consensus statement--a timely update. 30 Aug 2008
• Improvement of rural children's asthma self-management by lay health educators. 30 Aug 2008
• New asthma guidelines emphasize control, regular monitoring. 30 Aug 2008
• Asthma quality-of-care measures using administrative data: relationships to subsequent exacerbations in multiple databases. 30 Aug 2008
• Dental caries in children with asthma undergoing treatment with short-acting beta2-agonists. 30 Aug 2008
• Use of controller medications in patients initiated on a long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist before and after safety alerts. 13 Aug 2008
• Asthma 2008: targeting immunoglobulin E to achieve disease control. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Anti-Asthmatic Agents'

Definition: Drugs that are used to treat asthma.

Registry Number: 0

Descriptor UI: D018927

Alternative terms: Anti-Asthmatic Agents; Agents, Anti-Asthmatic; Anti Asthmatic Agents; Antiasthmatic Drugs; Drugs, Antiasthmatic; Anti-Asthmatic Drugs; Anti Asthmatic Drugs; Drugs, Anti-Asthmatic; Antiasthmatics; Antiasthmatic Agents; Agents, Antiasthmatic; Anti-Asthmatics; Anti Asthmatics;

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage; adverse effects; analysis; antagonists & inhibitors; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemical synthesis; classification; diagnostic use; economics; history; immunology; isolation & purification; metabolism; pharmacokinetics; pharmacology; poisoning; radiation effects; standards; supply & distribution; therapeutic use; toxicity; urine; chemistry; contraindications; agonists;

Tree Number: D27.505.954.796.050;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: consider also ASTHMA /drug ther