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Genetics play role in response to asthma drug.

Publication: FDA Consumer
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Genes affect how people with asthma respond to albuterol, the most commonly used drug for quick relief of asthma attacks, according to a new study of adults with mild asthma. Asthma causes the airways to be inflamed or swollen and the surrounding muscles to tighten.

A study funded by the...

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...National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) found that, over time, participants responded differently to daily doses of inhaled albuterol depending on which form of a specific gene they had inherited. While a few weeks of regular albuterol use improved asthma control in people with one form of...

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