… smokers with mild airways obstruction. Use of an inhaled anticholinergic bronchodilator results
… Use of the bronchodilator did not influence the long-term decline of FEV'. (JAMA 1994;272…

… as smoking cessation; whereas false diagnoses may have a labeling effect and lead to
unnecessary use of … of beta agonists and anticholinergic bronchodilators. However a “maximal …

… The major clinical use of inhaled anticholinergic agents is for the routine treatment of stable
… Effects of smoking intervention and the use of an inhaled anticholinergic bronchodilator on …

… Regrettably, the effects of bronchodilators on expiratory flow rates in COPD tend to be …
Smoking cessation is of paramount importance because it is the only intervention that has been …

… after bronchodilator use) to … health status) after 12 weeks without treatment failure (defined
as an increase in lower respiratory symptoms treated with a long-acting inhaled bronchodilator…

… that the effects of inhaled corticosteroids were much larger in asthma and asthmatic bronchitis
than in COPD. As they asked for, we also looked at the interaction between anticholinergic …

… Modern quaternary anticholinergic bronchodilators are descendants of the early botanical
… results of the study indicate that smoking cessation is the intervention with the greatest effect …

… It is also possible that a combined approach to bronchodilation might reduce the impact of
inter-patient variability in the relative responses to anticholinergic or adrenergic interventions. …

… Smoking is the most important risk factor for COPD … health implications, a large proportion
of patients with COPD continue to smoke, so finding effective smoking cessation interventions …

… In conclusion, inhaled anticholinergic bronchodilators and corticosteroids should be used to
improve … in tolerance to the drug’s bronchodilator and bronchoprotective effects and may be …