ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2012
Alternative therapies for asthma: are patients at risk?
Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of biological therapies on patients with Type-2 high asthma and comorbid obesity.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Review
- Complementary and alternative asthma treatments and their association with asthma control: a population-based study.BMJ open · 2013Article
- Complementary and alternative therapies: can we know what risks they present?Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2012Article
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- Commented on byResponse.2013
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Asthma patients often try some form of alternative medicine. This article questions whether this is good or bad. Systematic reviews fail to demonstrate that the treatments in question are demonstrably effective. Other data raise considerable concern over the safety of some forms of alternative medicine. Thus the risk-benefit balance fails to be positive. Patients are often mislead to believe otherwise and physicians should inform their asthma patients responsibly about the value of alternative medicine.
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