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Technology Can Halve Asthma Attacks: New Study
Technology can halve the risk of asthma attacks, according to new research.
Technology, such as text
services and ‘smart inhalers’, can halve the risk of
asthma attacks, according to new research.
University of
Auckland School of Pharmacy senior clinical research fellow
Dr Amy Chan led the review of 40 international studies
covering around 15,000 patients and published in the Cochrane
Review this week.
“Digital technologies that aim to
improve medication-taking can increase people taking their
medication in the way it has been prescribed by 15 percent,
and improve asthma control and quality of life,” Chan
says.
“Technologies that use text messages or
electronic adherence monitors appear to be particularly
effective for improving people taking their medication as
prescribed.”
The authors are from the University of
Auckland, University College of London, Queen Mary
University of London.
The researchers say their findings
support continued investigation of how to improve digital
interventions, so they can be used more widely to help
people manage their asthma.
Chan is currently researching
and developing an app to help
patients prevent asthma attacks.
Read the Cochrane review.
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