Recommend Maximizing Other COPD Meds Before Adding Daxas
May 2015
You'll get questions about when to use Daxas (roflumilast) to prevent COPD exacerbations.
New evidence suggests that Daxas decreases exacerbations that require hospitalization by 25%...in patients with severe COPD on long-acting bronchodilators plus an inhaled corticosteroid.
This works out to one fewer hospitalization for every 24 severe COPD patients on Daxas for a year.
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