Abstract
According to current guidelines, inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the preferred primary long-term treatment for asthmatic children of all age groups, but leukotriene receptor antagonists can be considered to be an alternative treatment for mild persistent asthma. In this article, all randomized double-blind efficacy studies comparing the long-term (>4-week) treatment using a leukotriene receptor antagonist with an inhaled corticosteroid in asthmatic children were critically reviewed. In school-aged children, five reports with an adequate study design were available. All of these studies compared montelukast with inhaled fluticasone. The meta-analysis of the two main outcome measures, forced expiratory volume in 1 s (weighted mean difference, 4.6% predicted, 95% confidence interval: 3.5-5.5) and asthma control days (respectively, 5.6%, 4.3-6.9) demonstrated the superiority of fluticasone over montelukast. Many other clinical and pulmonary outcomes also consistently showed that low-dose inhaled fluticasone was more effective than montelukast in the long-term management of mild to moderate persistent asthma. A more favorable response to fluticasone over montelukast was associated with more severe disease or markers of allergic in...Continue Reading
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