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Scientific rationale for the possible inhaled corticosteroid intraclass difference in the risk of pneumonia in COPD

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, October 2017
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Title
Scientific rationale for the possible inhaled corticosteroid intraclass difference in the risk of pneumonia in COPD
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International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, October 2017
DOI 10.2147/copd.s143656
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Christer Janson, Georgios Stratelis, Anna Miller-Larsson, Tim W Harrison, Kjell Larsson

Abstract

Inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) treatment combined with long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonists (LABAs) reduces the risk of exacerbations in COPD, but the use of ICSs is associated with increased incidence of pneumonia. There are indications that this association is stronger for fluticasone propionate than for budesonide. We have examined systematic reviews assessing the risk of pneumonia associated with fluticasone propionate and budesonide COPD therapy. Compared with placebo or LABAs, we found that fluticasone propionate was associated with 43%-78% increased risk of pneumonia, while only slightly increased risk or no risk was found for budesonide. We have evaluated conceivable mechanisms which may explain this difference and suggest that the higher pneumonia risk with fluticasone propionate treatment is caused by greater and more protracted immunosuppressive effects locally in the airways/lungs. These effects are due to the much slower dissolution of fluticasone propionate particles in airway luminal fluid, resulting in a slower uptake into the airway tissue and a much longer presence of fluticasone propionate in airway epithelial lining fluid.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 16%
Student > Master 5 13%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 3 8%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 7 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 37%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 7 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 February 2019.
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#8,264,793
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
#1,016
of 2,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#123,403
of 331,218 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
#24
of 70 outputs
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