Associate Professors. Researchers have found a way of treating asthma that reduces the chance of an attack by a third.One in four classroom carpets is harbouring high enough levels of cat dander (skin flecks) to trigger allergic reactions, according to new research.A ban on advertisements for prescription medicines is being called for by health experts.Upper Hutt carpenter Kelly Gee (Ngāti Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto) is one of about 830,000 asthma sufferers in New Zealand and said the new treatment had reduced his asthma attacks from three or four a week to just five a year.The study involved 890 mild to moderate asthma sufferers with half using the merged inhaler when symptoms were present and the other half a control group using separate inhalers.New Zealand-led research on asthma treatment is being called a "game changer" for stopping mild asthmatics from having severe attacks, an author of the study says.
This finding suggests that the use of an inhaled glucocorticoid in the situation of worsening asthma as perceived by the patient, through the vehicle of a coadministered bronchodilator (such as formoterol) used on an as-needed basis, may reduce the risk of the exacerbation becoming severe enough for the patient to seek urgent care. MB ChB 1979 Otago; FRACP 1985. Email jeremy.krebs@otago.ac.nz.
Patients were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: albuterol (100 μg, two inhalations from a pressurized metered-dose inhaler as needed for asthma symptoms) (albuterol group); budesonide (200 μg, one inhalation through a Turbuhaler twice daily) plus as-needed albuterol (budesonide maintenance group); or budesonide–formoterol (200 μg of budesonide and 6 μg of formoterol, one inhalation through a Turbuhaler as needed) (budesonide–formoterol group). Associate Professors. Address reprint requests to Dr. Beasley at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Private Bag 7902, Newtown, Wellington 6242, New Zealand, or at [email protected].
30 May 1984. "It certainly will help hopefully to reduce acute asthma episodes which is what we are after - it will also hopefully get people's asthma under better control," she said. Well, it did.Asthma New Zealand says a merged inhaler could be the game-changer suffers need to reduce attacks. Stewart Mann (Honorary Associate Professor) Email stewart.mann@otago.ac.nz.
Contact Details. Internal Medicine. However, maintenance treatment with budesonide was superior for control of asthma symptoms, which suggests that for the patient for whom asthma symptoms rather than exacerbations are the most bothersome, maintenance treatment has value.The statistical analysis was an intention-to-treat superiority analysis. ), and the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin (R.J.H.) The founder and director of the institute is Professor Richard Beasley.
His research interests in respiratory medicine are primarily in the fields of epidemiology and clinical management.
Adjunct Professor.
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