In the late 1980s, together with other colleagues in Wellington, New Zealand, I conducted
a series of case–control studies [
1
,
2
,
3
], which indicated that the use of inhaled fenoterol was associated with an increased
risk of death from asthma. The findings were of potential public health importance,
because there was an epidemic of asthma deaths in New Zealand, which we attributed
to the high market share for fenoterol [
[4]
]; fenoterol had similar pharmacological properties as isoprenaline forte, which had
caused asthma mortality epidemics in six countries (including New Zealand) in the
1960s [
[5]
].To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Accepted:
January 10,
2009
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