Conditions: Asthma
Keywords: chronic asthma
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 642
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study will investigate the additive effect of montelukast (MK0476) taken along with inhaled beclomethasone versus inhaled beclomethasone alone.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Montelukast + Beclomethasone arm 2: Montelukast + Placebo inhaler arm 3: Placebo tablet + Beclomethasone arm 4: Placebo tablet + Placebo inhaler

Interventions: intervention 1: montelukast sodium intervention 2: beclomethasone intervention 3: Placebo inhaler intervention 4: placebo tablet
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 10 mg tablet taken once daily at bedtime for 16 weeks intervention 2: 200 ug inhaled, taken twice daily for 16 weeks intervention 3: placebo inhaler taken twice daily for 16 weeks intervention 4: placebo tablet taken once daily at bedtime for 16 weeks

Protocol document: