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(NBC/WRCB) - Having lived with asthma most of his life, Matthew Leitx has become accustomed to always having medicine nearby. He doesn't go anywhere without his inhaler.
But inhalers are only part of the prescription for some people with asthma. It's estimated that seven million of them, or one out of three, have another problem in common: acid reflux.
So doctors have an idea. They wanted to know if treating one condition could help both. To find out, researchers like Dr. John Mastronarde gave people with asthma medicine to control their acid reflux. But after three years, a new study shows those patients aren't any better off.
Mastronarde says the findings are important because it will keep doctors from over medicating those asthma and acid reflux.
As for patients, it could help lift the burden of paying for treatments that simply don't work.
For this study doctors followed more than 400 people with asthma for three years. The findings are published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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