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Race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry of black patients with asthma do not predict inhaled corticosteroid response

October 18, 2016
  • Advising on this article:
  • Devra K. Dang

KEY POINT

Responsiveness to inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) was associated with measures of lung function and asthma control and not related to self-reported race/ethnicity or African ancestry, according to results of a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

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Wells KE, et al. Assessing differences in inhaled corticosteroid response by self-reported race-ethnicity and genetic ancestry among asthmatic subjects. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016;137(5):1364–9.

Dunn RM, et al. Personalized asthma therapy in blacks—the role of genetic ancestry. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016;137(5):1370–2.

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