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Influence of weight status in the response to Step-2 maintenance therapies in children with asthma

INTRODUCTION: Overweight children with asthma may display impaired response to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), possibly due to non-eosinophilic inflammation or weight-related lung compression; these mechanisms may differentially affect response to ICS and leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs). We...

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Autores principales: Longo, Cristina, Bartlett, Gillian, Schuster, Tibor, Ducharme, Francine M., MacGibbon, Brenda, Barnett, Tracie A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31179003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2019-000401