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Beclomethasone Dipropionate

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Asthma has been defined as “[a] disease characterized by an increased responsiveness of the airways to various stimuli and manifested by slowing of forced expiration which changes in severity either spontaneously or as a result of therapy” (Joint Committee on Pulmonary Nomenclature, 1975). According to Wilson (1983a), asthma occurs in between 2 and 20% of the population in developed countries. It is a major health problem because of its disabling and disruptive nature, which often demands changes in lifestyle, and because it is associated with prolonged morbidity and some mortality.

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Maxwell, R.A., Eckhardt, S.B. (1990). Beclomethasone Dipropionate. In: Drug Discovery. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0469-5_26

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