Respiratory Drugs Long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMA) have been shown to reduce exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and are now being considered for patients with ...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have multiple breathing problems and, at the more severe stages, experience acute exacerbations of COPD up to three times annually. Because ...

Changing patients from an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long-acting β agonist (LABA) inhaler and long-acting muscarinic agonist (LAMA) inhaler to a LAMA/LABA inhaler and a separate ICS inhaler did not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inhalers with a long-acting muscarinic antagonist and a long-acting beta agonist (LABA) resulted in “better ...

CHICAGO -- A fixed-dose inhaler combining an inhaled corticosteroid, long-acting muscarinic antagonist, and long-acting beta agonist (ICS/LAMA/LABA) improved lung function and reduced exacerbations in ...

Overall results demonstrated that for the LABA/LAMA cohort cardiovascular event frequency was 2.11% compared to 3.41% in the LABA/ICS cohort. According to a new study published in the Annals of ...

A study published by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of the head-to-head FLAME study [The study was funded by Novartis Pharmaceuticals], compared the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This analysis spanned from 2016 to 2022. Nearly 50% of patients were initially prescribed LABA/inhaled ...

LABA/LAMA is associated with a similar or lower risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular adverse events compared to treatment with LABA/inhaled corticosteroid. According to a new study published in ...