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Richard Friedel - 25 Dec 2006 11:13 GMT

See expired thread " More Advair Deaths. Be Careful!" with doctor
comments and 47 postings.

and
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article
_id=397817&in_page_id=1774

for further warnings on LABA asthma drugs

"The asthma drugs 'that are putting lives at risk'"

"Urgent review

Dr Vassiliou said the role of these types of drugs - known as
long-acting beta-agonist drugs (LABA) - should be urgently reviewed by
the European Medicines Agency.

Doctors should be encouraged to follow good practice guidelines and
never prescribe them on their own but always with inhaled steroids, he
said.

He said: "We are seeing an increasingly worrying trend where chronic
asthma sufferers, mainly children, are being treated solely by LABA
drugs.

"LABA on its own is not safe and this monotherapy is neither supported
by current evidence nor encouraged by the current British Thoracic
Society guidelines," he added." Regards, Richard Friedel

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Tina - 26 Dec 2006 14:34 GMT

> See expired thread " More Advair Deaths. Be Careful!" with doctor
> comments and 47 postings.
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> by current evidence nor encouraged by the current British Thoracic
> Society guidelines," he added." Regards, Richard Friedel

It's not all bad. Advair saved my life. I can actually breathe now more
easily...not perfect but much better. I agree that it is not for everyone,
but when you have tried everything else and then this works it's a godsend.

I don't know if I am right in saying this but this is my logic. If the
asthmatics who receive this drug are mainly the most severe ones, of course
their death rate is higher than the ones who are only mildly affected by the
disease. It is like saying that diabetics who must take insulin have a
higher death rate than those who don't. Well, yeah. They are sicker than the
others. Sometimes I think "researchers" miss the big picture. Just because
there is a correlation doesn't mean it is causal.

Just my two cents,
-Tina

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mcs - 04 Jan 2007 06:44 GMT

richard if say people with asthma get more days of particulate pollution ,
wouldn't one be equally concerned about getting that message out too for
then perhaps, some people wouldn't need asthma meds to begin with?

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