Asthma treatment in the 21st century: What's next?

Author: Peters, Stephen

Source: Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology, Volume 27, Number 3, October 2004 , pp. 197-205(9)

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Abstract:

Asthma treatment is evolving as we enter the 21st century. This review focuses on several different areas of asthma treatment now in evolution. These include: (1) the proper role of various asthma controllers—either already approved or under investigation—besides inhaled corticosteriods in asthma therapy; (2) the potential role for immune and cytokine modulation for asthma therapy; (3) the potential role for pharmacogenetics in asthma therapy; and (4) whether single-inhaler therapy with a combination of an inhaled cortcosteriod and a longacted β-agonist could be used for both maintenance and rescue in patients with asthma.

Keywords: Asthma; asthma treatment; cytokine modulation; immunological therapy; pharmacogenetics

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1385/CRIAI:27:3:197

Affiliations: 1: Center for Human Genomics and Department of Medicine, Section on Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Email: sppeters@wfubmc.edu

Publication date: 2004-10-01