A bronchodilator is a medication that relaxes and opens the airways, or bronchi, in the lungs. A doctor may prescribe them for asthma and other respiratory conditions. Narrowed airways make it ...

Controlling for observed confounding with random-effects logistic regression, we determined demographic and clinical variables associated with bronchodilator use and evaluated between-hospital ...

This may be readily induced with intensive bronchodilator or steroid (cortisone, cortisol, prednisone or prednisolone) therapy, singly or in combination. This, we believe, is one of the essential ...

Bronchodilator responsiveness was defined as an increase in either FEV 1 or FVC by at least 12% and at least 200 ml after bronchodilator use, in accordance with the American Thoracic Society and ...

4 Bronchodilators may increase the risk of cardiovascular adverse effects in these patients, however, which has led to on-going investigations regarding the safety of bronchodilator therapy in ...

Physicians can use peak expiratory flow as a first-line tool for assessing variable airflow limitations among patients with ...

And compared with the rest of the year, bronchodilator responsiveness was more common in winter months. HealthDay News — Patients are more likely to have positive bronchodilator responsiveness ...

On Medindia find the complete list of Bronchodilator drugs with their available forms and strength. More information is available on each drug including their price list. We recommend consulting ...

The first COPD treatment — besides quitting smoking — is often a bronchodilator. (Photo Credit: Moment/Getty Images) Or maybe you're good at both but still feel depressed because you can't do ...

The study is the first to assess COPD clinical outcomes associated with this paradoxical bronchodilator response (BDR) in an Asian population, the authors said. Although post-bronchodilator ...

This study included adults in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. Discriminative performance improved after adding sex-specific pre-bronchodilator peak expiratory flow to St. George’s Respiratory ...