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Inhaled Steroids in Asthma: Optimizing Effects in the Airways
By Robert P. Schleimer, Paul M. O'Byrne, Stanley J. Szefler, and Ralph Brattsand, eds. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, 2002; 713 pp; $195
This book is the latest in the Lung Biology in Health and Disease series, outlining the effects of inhaled corticosteroids for asthma, from bench to bedside. As pulmonologists, we agree that inhaled corticosteroids are the mainstay of asthma therapy for persistent disease. Readers of this book will be led through concise chapters on the development of inhaled steroids; the molecular basis for steroid actions; determinants of lung selectivity; comparisons of various steroids, including side effects and...