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?Genetic tests could pave way to ?personalised? asthma drugs? the Guardian has reported, before warning that current treatments may make symptoms worse. The newspaper goes on to say that, ?screening could help GPs tailor drugs to children as study confirms variations in response to asthma medications?.
This headline is based on a small, proof-of-concept study that compared the effectiveness of standard treatment to an alternative asthma medication among children with poorly controlled asthma who were known to have a specific genetic variant (arginine-16 genotype).
If children?s asthma symptoms fail to respond to the standard treatment (such as a reliever inhaler), their doctor will usually step up their treatment to additional, more powerful options.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Is-childrens-asthma-made-worse-by-inhalers.aspx
This headline is based on a small, proof-of-concept study that compared the effectiveness of standard treatment to an alternative asthma medication among children with poorly controlled asthma who were known to have a specific genetic variant (arginine-16 genotype).
If children?s asthma symptoms fail to respond to the standard treatment (such as a reliever inhaler), their doctor will usually step up their treatment to additional, more powerful options.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Is-childrens-asthma-made-worse-by-inhalers.aspx