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Possible Alternate Therapy for Adults with Poorly Controlled Asthma – 2
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. A recent study comparing three treatment methods for asthma has found a possible alternate therapy for some. Dr. Gail Weinmann at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute points to a drug commonly used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Weinmann: The study found that tiotropium was superior to doubling the dose of the inhaled corticosteroids and controlling asthma.
Narrator: Higher doses of corticosteroids do not improve symptoms for all asthma patients and can have significant side effects. Tiotropium has shown to help patients' day-to-day lung function as well as the number of days in which they had no asthma symptoms. For details on this study, visit nhlbi.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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