Benefit from anti-inflammatory treatment during clinical remission of atopic asthma

Study objectives: Subjects with atopic asthma often experience a disappearance of symptoms around puberty. However, airway inflammation and remodeling may persist. It is unknown whether those findings warrant prolonged anti-inflammatory treatment despite the absence of symptoms. In this study, we investigated whether a short course of combined anti-inflammatory treatment would, also in this specific patient population, diminish airway...