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Article: Inhaled Corticosteroids Decrease Mortality Rates.(in asthma)
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- January 30, 2000
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2000 JAN 30 - (NewsRx.com) -- A recent study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology suggests that a decrease in the asthma mortality rate in Israel may be due to increased use of inhaled corticosteroids, common anti-inflammatory medications used to treat asthma.
Israeli researchers examined data for asthma-related deaths from 1981-1995, and compared it with sales of inhaled corticosteroids and bronchodilators. The average asthma mortality rate for 5- to 34- year-olds for 1991-1995 decreased by 59.1% when compared to the previous 4-year period (1986-1990).
This significant decrease was inversely paralleled by an increase in the sales of ...