Unsafe asthma prescribing threatens 22,000 people’s lives

Using long-acting asthma reliever inhalers without any preventative therapy puts people at risk of life-threatening asthma attacks – yet that is what thousands of people in the UK are doing, because of unsafe prescribing, according to new research from UK primary care.....

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Older age in patients with asthma may increase risk for treatment failure

Patients with asthma aged 30 years and older are at an increased risk for experiencing treatment failure, according to study results.
The risk for treatment failure increasingly goes up each passing year as patients are on inhaled corticosteroids, according to the research team.....

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Asthma Sufferers May Be At Risk Of Taking Deadly Medication

People with asthma are at risk of having a potentially fatal attack. Thousands of people are in danger because they are using long-acting reliever inhalers on their own rather than with a steroid preventer, according to a report by Asthma UK.....

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