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Comment
. 2022 Mar;18(1):210174.
doi: 10.1183/20734735.0174-2021. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

Reply to: Challenging the paradigm

Andrew Bush  1   2 , Ian D Pavord  3
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Reply to: Challenging the paradigm

Andrew Bush et al. Breathe (Sheff). 2022 Mar.

Abstract

Inhaled corticosteroids should be targeted to those with documented airway eosinophilia, not prescribed indiscriminately to all who wheeze. Blind steroid treatment without regard to underlying pathophysiology is not 21st century standard of care. https://bit.ly/34lyaJG.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: A. Bush has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: I.D. Pavord reports speaker fees from Aerocrine AB; speaker fees and consultant fees from Almirall and Novartis; speaker fees, payments for organisation of educational events, consultant fees and international scientific meeting sponsorship from AstraZeneca, GSK, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Sanofi, Teva; speaker fees, consultant fees and international scientific meeting sponsorship from Boehringer Ingelheim; grants, speaker fees, consultant fees and international scientific meeting sponsorship from Chiesi; consultant fees from Circassia, Dey Pharma, Genentech, Knopp Biosciences, Merck, MSD, RespiVert, Schering-Plough; and consultant fees and international scientific meeting sponsorship from Napp Pharmaceuticals, outside the submitted work.

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