Inhaled steroids in the long term management of COPD
A recent article in Today’s Hospitalist provided a roundup of recent clinical trials on this subject with links to primary sources. Although controversy persists it appears there is a role for salmeterol and fluticasone in combination.
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The way they're currently being treated, it seems that "COPD" and "asthma" represent a distinction without a difference. If they both respond similarly to a beta2-adrenergic agonist and a glucocorticoid, why are they even separate diagnoses? It stands to reason that two conditions with the same symptoms which respond to the same treatment are in fact one condition.
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