Conditions: Asthma
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 1162
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study, in children with chronic asthma, evaluates the number of days of worsening asthma during 8 weeks of treatment with montelukast after treatment is started for the first day of school.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: montelukast arm 2: Placebo

Interventions: intervention 1: montelukast intervention 2: Comparator: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: montelukast 5 mg tablet Once a day (QD) for 8 weeks intervention 2: Placebo to montelukast QD for 8 weeks

Protocol document: