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Inhaled corticosteroids: Impact on asthma morbidity and mortality

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1 Inhaled corticosteroids: Impact on asthma morbidity and mortality
Samy Suissa, PhDa, Pierre Ernst, MD, MSca,b  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology  Volume 107, Issue 6, Pages (June 2001) DOI: /mai Copyright © 2001 Mosby, Inc. Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Yearly asthma death rates per 100,000 people 5-34 years of age (in blue) and inhaled corticosteroid sales in hundreds of millions of doses (in red) in New Zealand over the period 1976 to Adapted from Suissa S, Ernst P. J Clin Epidemiol 1997;50: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology  , DOI: ( /mai ) Copyright © 2001 Mosby, Inc. Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Fitted RR for death from asthma as a function of the number of canisters of inhaled corticosteroids dispensed in the prior 12 months. Adapted from Suissa S et al. New Engl J Med 2000;343:332-6. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology  , DOI: ( /mai ) Copyright © 2001 Mosby, Inc. Terms and Conditions


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