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Asthma Fatalities Linked To Controller Medicine Underuse.
By jeremyc | March 12, 2010
MedPage Today (3/4, Gever) reported, “Almost everyone who died from an out-of-hospital acute asthma attack in Milwaukee over a four-year period had one thing in common: they weren’t using inhaled corticosteroids,” according to researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin. “Of 22 out-of-hospital asthma deaths from 2004 to 2008, the county medical examiner’s office found that none of the patients had been using single-agent corticosteroid inhalers, and only three patients were using combination inhalers that included a long-acting beta agonist (LABA).” The majority of the patients “appeared to be relying mainly on short-acting rescue medications, such as albuterol.”
Topics: | Asthma |
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