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  • A large study (over 500 families) in Vancouver and Winnipeg of early developmental interventions to modify the expression of allergy and asthma in high-risk children that started in 1996 has completed the seventh year evaluations. Current results show a 56 per cent reduction in asthma development in children who are now of school age.
  • In 2004 an epidemiologic study of the prevalence of asthma and allergic disease was undertaken in Vancouver of more than 3,000 children aged 12-14 years. This was part of the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Children Phase 3. Participation of students was 95 per cent; almost double that of elsewhere in Canada. The data are currently being analyzed.
  • During the last five years, two large-scale randomized clinical trials have been conducted examining the safety of inhaled corticosteroids in children with asthma, and a third examined the efficacy and safety of adding long-acting beta-agonist therapy to regular inhaled corticosteroids in children.