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Article: New treatment reduces severity of asthma attacks in preschoolers.
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- February 15, 2009
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Montreal, January 22, 2009 u The largest study of its kind on preschoolers has demonstrated that preventive treatment with high doses of inhaled corticosteroids is effective in reducing the severity and duration of asthma attacks triggered by colds. Dr. Francine Ducharme, assistant director of clinical research at the Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center and a pediatrics professor at the Universite de Montreal, led the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The research team found that high doses of corticosteroids (fluticasone), when inhaled at the onset of a cold and taken for up to 10 days, ...