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Your magazine has helped me in more ways than you could ever know, and your articles are interesting as well as informative. I was wondering if there were any plans for articles about whether heredity or environment plays a bigger role in developing asthma Or about gender-specific issues which affect asthma, such as women's asthma getting worse just before the start of their menstrual cycles. Information on these subjects would be greatly appreciated.
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I enjoyed reading your November/December issue I was given at an asthma meeting in Walton. I am happy to see the subject [of asthma] getting better recognition, as I have a son and granddaughter who also suffer from asthma. Thank you, Helen J. N e u m a n n
Walton, NY
Sincerely, Alison M. Ashcroft N e w p o r t News, VA
I read with interest the [November/December 1997] issue of Asthma Magazine and the story, "The Straight Facts About Inhaled Steroids and Cataracts!" Just a comment from a person who has been doing drug education for patients for a long time: It is probably more detrimental than you think to use the term "steroids" when you refer to corticosteroids. The term "steroids" includes sex steroids and most often adrenocorticoids or male sex hormone steroids. These drugs are associated by the public with body building. In many parts of the nation, education aimed at drug abuse specifically targets the steroids. I personally do not use the term steroids when talking to any lay group of asthmatic patients about medication use....avoid any unintended message by using only the term corticosteroid.
We want to hear ~om you! Share your ideas about asthma management or your opinion about an article you ..... have read in Asthma Magazine. ExcerptsjSom selected letters to Asthma Magazine will be reprinted in the following issue, unless anonymitY is requested by the sender. We reserve the right to edit based on length. Please send letters to Asthma Magazine, 3 Bridge Street, Newton, MA 02158 or you can e-mail us at ~ asthmama~@aol, corn
Thanks! Alan Barreuther, PharmD, with the American Lung Association of Arizona Tucson, AZ
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Your magazine has helped me in more ways than you could ever know, and your articles are interesting as well as informative. I was wondering if there were any plans for articles about whether heredity or environment plays a bigger role in developing asthma Or about gender-specific issues which affect asthma, such as women's asthma getting worse just before the start of their menstrual cycles. Information on these subjects would be greatly appreciated.
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we
have
I enjoyed reading your November/December issue I was given at an asthma meeting in Walton. I am happy to see the subject [of asthma] getting better recognition, as I have a son and granddaughter who also suffer from asthma. Thank you, Helen J. N e u m a n n
Walton, NY
Sincerely, Alison M. Ashcroft N e w p o r t News, VA
I read with interest the [November/December 1997] issue of Asthma Magazine and the story, "The Straight Facts About Inhaled Steroids and Cataracts!" Just a comment from a person who has been doing drug education for patients for a long time: It is probably more detrimental than you think to use the term "steroids" when you refer to corticosteroids. The term "steroids" includes sex steroids and most often adrenocorticoids or male sex hormone steroids. These drugs are associated by the public with body building. In many parts of the nation, education aimed at drug abuse specifically targets the steroids. I personally do not use the term steroids when talking to any lay group of asthmatic patients about medication use....avoid any unintended message by using only the term corticosteroid.
We want to hear ~om you! Share your ideas about asthma management or your opinion about an article you ..... have read in Asthma Magazine. ExcerptsjSom selected letters to Asthma Magazine will be reprinted in the following issue, unless anonymitY is requested by the sender. We reserve the right to edit based on length. Please send letters to Asthma Magazine, 3 Bridge Street, Newton, MA 02158 or you can e-mail us at ~ asthmama~@aol, corn
Thanks! Alan Barreuther, PharmD, with the American Lung Association of Arizona Tucson, AZ
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1.800.527.3284
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