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β-Agonists and Asthma Mortality

What Have We Learned, What Questions Remain?

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Woolcock, A.J. β-Agonists and Asthma Mortality. Drugs 40, 653–656 (1990). https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-199040050-00001

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