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Article: Asthma symptoms reduced among children whose schools provided asthma medication.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 24, 2004
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2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Urban children with asthma who attended schools that provided inhaled corticosteroids (an asthma medication) had improved symptoms and fewer days absent from school than children in a usual-care group (inhaled corticosteroids not given through school), according to a new study.
U.S. guidelines recommend that children with mild to severe persistent asthma take daily maintenance medications (including inhaled corticosteroids), but undertreatment with these medications and poor adherence is common, especially for young urban children.
Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and ...