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Nonadherence to inhaled corticosteroids: A characteristic of the pediatric obese-asthma phenotype?
Pediatric pulmonology - 1 May 2021
Orriëns Lynn B, Vijverberg Susanne J H, Maitland-van der Zee Anke H, Longo Cristina
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BACKGROUND: Children with excess weight and asthma tend to respond less well to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) than children with normal weight, potentially resulting in nonadherence to ICS. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether excess weight (body mass index ≥85th percentile) was associated with general, unintentional, and intentional nonadherence to ICS in children with asthma. METHODS: We analyzed data from 566...
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