Case A 13-year-old boy is admitted to hospital for treatment of an asthma attack. He reports daily symptoms of wheeze, cough and breathlessness which interfere with school and sleep despite being on ...

COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; EIB: Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction; IβA: Inhaled β 2-agonist; ICS: Inhaled corticosteroid. Globally, the prevalence of asthma continues to ...

Prevalence COPD afflicts 14.2 million adults (a prevalence of one in five) in the USA (emphysema 4.3 million; chronic bronchitis 9.9 million) with an estimated additional 9.8 million people who ...

Background QVA149 is a once-daily (o.d.) inhaled dual bronchodilator containing a fixed-dose combination of the long-acting β2-agonist indacaterol and the long-acting muscarinic antagonist ...

Inhaled corticosteroids reduced all-cause mortality by about 25% relative to placebo. Stratification by individual trials and adjustments for age, sex, baseline post-bronchodilator percentage ...

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