Onset and Duration of Mometasone by Oscillometry and Spirometry
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
1969-12-31
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are appreciated for their long term anti-inflammatory effects
in chronic asthma. However, they also have largely unappreciated early effects when initiated
as a controller therapy in a steroid-naïve population. Impulse oscillometry might reveal such
an early effect better than spirometry. The investigators sought to examine the onset of
action and sustained effects over 4 weeks treatment of mometasone furoate as measured by
Impulse Oscillometry System (IOS) versus spirometry.