Exacerbations of asthma are among the most common causes of hospitalization and outpatient visits, particularly among children and adolescents. Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy is the mainstay for ...

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Adults who suffer from asthma often need to take corticosteroids to open up their airways, but the medications may have an unintended side effect: New research shows the treatment, particularly when ...

NEW YORK, August 3 (Praxis Press) Inhaled corticosteroids are effective in treating asthma but it is unclear whether their use can prevent death from asthma. Suissa and colleagues performed a ...

In the WAYFINDER trial, tezepelumab reduced oral corticosteroid use in patients with severe asthma, with well-controlled ...

The more often a patient used systemic corticosteroids, the higher their risk of moderate or severe COVID-19 and all-cause mortality, the study found. Patients who take biologics or systemic ...

—Could the approach explored by these investigators become a tool to predict responsiveness to inhaled corticosteroids in patients with severe asthma? Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD, Professor of ...

Asthma control, inhalers High doses of inhaled corticosteroids were associated with lower levels of eosinophils, which may interfere with the recommendation of some monoclonal antibodies in asthma ...

Short-term use of oral corticosteroids is associated with an increased risk of sepsis, VTE Expert consensus statements regarding the use and tapering of oral corticosteroids may be used to help inform ...

A significant proportion of patients with asthma who received intermittent oral corticosteroids experienced a frequent prescribing pattern. Increasing frequent patterns of intermittent oral ...

Asthma is an umbrella diagnosis covering a number of heterogeneous inflammatory pathways. In the past, excessive T-helper cell type 2 (Th2) response and immunoglobulin E (IgE) sensitivity were thought ...

This study evaluated the association between patient-reported and medical record–abstracted local adverse events and patient-reported and claims-based adherence to inhaled corticosteroid therapy.