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Asthma drugs cut risk of CVD
13-Sep-07
Some asthma medications might help reduce cardiovascular risk and alleviate asthma symptoms, a US study has shown.
It found patients given low-dose theophylline add-on therapy or the leukotrine receptor antagonist montelukast for asthma had lower cardiovascular disease blood risk factors.
Both drugs are recommended by British Thoracic Society/SIGN guidelines for asthma patients who do not respond to long acting beta-2 agonists.
The study included 489 patients aged from 15-79 years who were diagnosed with asthma, but had an FEV1 greater than 50 per cent.
Dr Steve Holmes, Somerset GP and General Practice Airways Group (GPIAG) chairman said: 'This study looked very much at surrogate markers rather than actual outcomes.'
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