Article: INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS BENEFIT YOUNG CHILDREN WITH FREQUENT WHEEZING BUT DO NOT PREVENT DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC ASTHMA

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:

Daily treatment with inhaled corticosteroids can reduce breathing problems in pre-school-aged children at high risk for asthma but they do not prevent the development of persistent asthma in these children, according to new results from the Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.

Studies in older children and adults show that the most effective long-term control medicine for persistent asthma (symptoms more than two days a week or more than twice a month at ...

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