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Section Type: METHODS

Text: In an open-label, parallel-group, multicentre study, 127 asthmatic patients, well controlled on ICS and LABA, were treated with budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort) Turbuhaler) 200/6 mg (equivalent to 160/4. 5 mg delivered dose) 2 inhalations bid for 4 weeks, and were then randomised to budesonide/formoterol adjustable dosing (n = 69) (guided self-adjustment of dose : 1 inhalation bid or 2 inhalations at night with interim step ups to 2 inhalations bid and if not sufficient up to 4 inhalations bid for 14 days) or fixed dosing (2 inhalations bid) (n = 58) for 12 weeks.