Twenty school children with chronic asthma who despite regular prophylactic therapy continued to have troublesome nocturnal wheeze or cough entered a double-blind crossover study in which a once daily theophylline preparation was compared with placebo to assess control of these symptoms. Seventeen c
Once a day theophylline in chronic childhood asthma?
β Scribed by H. Davies; J. Stroobant; T. Leakey; P. Helms
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Volume
- 145
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6997
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