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Asthma treatment is evolving as we enter the 21st century. This review focuses on several different areas of asthma treatment now in evolution. These include: (1) the proper role of various asthma controllers—either already approved or under investigation—besides inhaled corticosteriods in asthma therapy; (2) the potential role for immune and cytokine modulation for asthma therapy; (3) the potential role for pharmacogenetics in asthma therapy; and (4) whether single-inhaler therapy with a combination of an inhaled cortcosteriod and a longacted β-agonist could be used for both maintenance and rescue in patients with asthma.

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Supported in part by grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute HL067663 and HL074225.

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Peters, S.P. Asthma treatment in the 21st century. Clinic Rev Allerg Immunol 27, 197–205 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1385/CRIAI:27:3:197

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