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In the Childhood Asthma Management Program study of school-aged children with established mild-to-moderate persistent asthma, twice-daily therapy with inhaled corticosteroids controlled symptoms of asthma but slightly reduced height growth and did not improve lung growth or affect the natural course of the disease.¹ In this issue of the Journal, two studies involving young children^2,3 test the hypothesis that the natural history of wheezing in early life may be altered by the administration of continuous or intermittent doses of inhaled corticosteroids when symptoms first occur but when the diagnosis of asthma is still uncertain. Both groups of authors conclude that inhaled . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston.

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N Engl J Med 2006; 355:624-626, Aug 10, 2006. Correspondence

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