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Nearly 25 million people in the United States

Nearly 25 million people in the United States suffer from louis vuitton outlet asthma, and many of them use an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) medicine two times per day, every day, to prevent asthma symptoms. Unlike albuterol, a medicine that opens the airways and is used only to treat symptoms or asthma attacks, patients on inhaled corticosteroids are told to use this medicine even when they are not having symptoms. Now, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests this twice-a-day medication may not be needed. This may be important news for patients suffering from a disease that not only costs billions in health care dollars, but also leads to missed days of work and school, as well as early death. Researchers from 10 different institutions in the louis vuitton shoes yrsu1pmi U.S. looked at 342 adults with mild to moderate asthma who were taking inhaled corticosteroids. They randomly put patients into three groups to study the effects of different medication management approaches. Members of the first group had their medication adjusted by a physician every six weeks based on standard clinical guidelines. The second group had its medication adjusted every six weeks based on results of a breathing test, and members of the third group adjusted their medication daily based on their symptoms. Researchers found that patients in the third group -- those who used their inhaled corticosteroids only when they had symptoms -- did just as well as the patients who used it every day. These patients had no difference in lung function and days missed from school and work louis vuitton shop online official website, worsening of symptoms, and asthma attacks.

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