Compliance therapy with anti-inflammatory antiasthmatic drugs: inhaled corticosteroids and leukotriene receptor antagonists.
Clin Ter
; 158(4): 363-70, 2007.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17953289
ABSTRACT
Bronchial asthma represents the commonest chronic respiratory disease in industrialized countries and its prevalence is increasing throughout the world. This is a chronic inflammatory disease in which the inflammation constitutes an important predisposing condition for airway remodelling and secondary irreversible airflow obstruction. The current approach for the treatment involves many classes of drugs, particularly anti-inflammatory such inhaled and oral corticosteroids and cysteinyl-leukotriene receptor antagonist. The pharmacology of drugs used in asthma represents an important factor that conditioning the effectiveness of therapy. In fact, many studies have demonstrated that some asthmatic patients have particular problems that deserve special treatment. Another important factor of asthma treatment is represented by delivery devices for the inhalation of medications and their correct use because, at the present, it is estimated that compliance to controller anti-asthmatic therapy is no more than 50%. The aim of this review is to focus on the compliance in the treatment of asthma and the use of antiinflammatory therapies with inhaled corticosteroids and leukotriene receptor antagonist drugs.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Asthma
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Patient Compliance
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Adrenal Cortex Hormones
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Anti-Asthmatic Agents
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Leukotriene Antagonists
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Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Type of study:
Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Ter
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article