Safety and Efficacy of HFA‐134a Beclomethasone Dipropionate Extra‐Fine Aerosol over Six Months
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the systemic safety and efficacy of hydrofluoroalkane beclomethasone dipropionate (HFA-BDP) extra-fine aerosol 800 microg/day with chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-BDP 1500 microg/day. DESIGN: Six-month, randomized, parallel-group, double-blind, double-dummy study. PATIENTS: Patients (n=141) with moderate to severe asthma adequately controlled by CFC-BDP 1000 microg/day to 2000 microg/day. INTERVENTIONS: Patients received CFC-BDP 1500 microg/day during a two-week run-in period and were then randomized to either HFA-BDP (n=70) or CFC-BDP (n=71). RESULTS: Similar proportions of HFA-BDP and CFC-BDP patients had a 24 h urinary free cortisol values below the reference range at month 6 (15% versus 25%, P=0.35). Measures of adrenocorticotrophic hormone stimulation and morning plasma cortisol levels were also similar in each group. The frequency of skin bruising and oral candidiasis was low for both treatments. No change in intraocular pressure was reported for either treatment. Pulmonary function was similar in both groups; however, the onset of the first asthma exacerbation or increased asthma symptoms tended to be earlier for CFC-BDP than for HFA-BDP (P=0.076); 27% of CFC-BDP patients reported increased asthma symptoms, compared with 14% of HFA-BDP patients (P=0.095). CONCLUSIONS: HFA-BDP 800 microg/day has a systemic adverse event profile comparable to that of CFC-BDP 1500 microg/day, and further control of asthma symptoms may be achieved after a switch from CFC-BDP 1500 microg/day to HFA-BDP 800 microg/day.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".