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To the Editor: In the study of long-term salmeterol treatment for exercise-induced asthma reported by Nelson et al. (July 16 issue),¹ a flaw in the procedure for selecting patients was that not all subjects were receiving concurrent therapy with inhaled corticosteroids, in accordance with asthma-management guidelines. In real life, moreover, patients normally take a ₂-adrenergic agonist on an occasional basis before engaging in exercise.

The authors state that they chose to use exercise because it is an example of a clinically relevant bronchoconstrictor stimulus. Since the inhalation of cold air augments the bronchoconstrictor response to exercise,² the exercise protocol they . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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