Asthma treatment in the 21st century: what's next?
Asthma treatment is evolving as we enter the 21st century. This review focuses on several different areas of asthma treatment now in evolution. These include: (1) the proper role of various asthma controllers--either already approved or under investigation--besides inhaled corticosteriods in asthma therapy; (2) the potential role for immune and cytokine modulation for asthma therapy; (3) the potential role for pharmacogenetics in asthma therapy; and (4) whether single-inhaler therapy with a combination of an inhaled corticosteriod and a long-acted beta-agonist could be used for both maintenance and rescue in patients with asthma.
Peters
Stephen P
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Center for Human Genomics and Department of Medicine, Section on Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. sppeters@wfubmc.edu
D000486:Allergy and Immunology / Q000639:trends*; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans