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Allergic diseases represent a major health issue worldwide. Mainstay treatment is allergen avoidance and pharmacotherapy for symptom relief. Allergen immunotherapy offers the advantages of specific treatment with long lasting efficacy, and can modify the course of disease. However, use of this treatment is restricted by the high risk of adverse events especially in asthmatics. Other, better tolerated, routes of allergen administration than the current conventional subcutaneous route (SCIT) have been investigated including sublingual (SLIT). However, the immune parameters of SLIT have not been examined. We propose conducting a randomised, placebo-controlled study of a commercially-available SLIT for house dust mite (HDM) allergy to investigate induction of relevant T cell regulatory immune mechanisms. The first year will be followed by an optional open label extension period. Immunoregulatory cytokine synthesis and T cell phenotype and function (real time PCR and flow cytometry) will be examined. This project will provide important fundamental knowledge on which to base improved and greater application of this potentially curative treatment for allergy. SLIT has the potential advantage of home administration and suitability for patients with asthma who are currently unable to access many of the allergen desensitising regimens.
The aim of this long-term study is to investigate the effect of roflumilast (APTA-2217) on the long-term safety in patients with asthma, who completed the 24-week evaluation of study APTA-2217-05. Roflumilast will be administered orally once daily. The present study consists of a 28 weeks treatment period, and is the extension of the 24-week study APTA-2217-05 (registered study). The study will provide further long-term safety and efficacy data of roflumilast.
The ASTHMA Pilot Study is a randomized, controlled, parallel group clinical trial of 6 weekly doses of azithromycin (cumulative dose 4800 mg) or placebo as adjunctive treatment in addition to usual care for adults with stable persistent asthma, with final follow up at 3 months after completion of study medication. The hypothesis to be tested is that antibiotic treatment will improve asthma at followup, and that this improvement will be limited to patients with evidence of C. pneumoniae infection. The secondary hypothesis is that randomized, controlled treatment trials can be carried out successfully in a geographically dispersed practice-based research network.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a flexible dose of Symbicort has a similar effect on the airways of patients with asthma as a higher fixed-dose of Symbicort with additional glucocorticosteroids added.
The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of a variable dose of Symbicort with a high fixed maintenance dose of another asthma medication, Seretide, in the treatment of asthma.
The purpose of the study is to compare the efficacy of a flexible dose of Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol) with conventional stepwise best standard treatment in patients with persistent asthma.
The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of roflumilast (APTA-2217) on lung function in patients with asthma. Roflumilast will be administered orally once daily. The study duration consists of a baseline period (2 to 4 weeks) and a treatment period (24 weeks). The study will provide further data on safety, tolerability, and effectiveness of roflumilast.
The purpose of this study is to test two asthma management programs: (a) a school-based curriculum to empower middle school students to manage their asthma and (b) a parent training curriculum to teach childrearing skills that support the youths' growing autonomy and need to self-manage their disease.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of approaches to correct for the effects of population stratification on case-control genetic association studies.