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The high incidence of schizophrenia causes a greater burden on society and family. In the past of half century, with the widespread use of schizophrenic drugs,the prognosis of clinical schizophrenia has been substantially improved after following the principles of early, effective and maintenance therapy.In this overview,the clinical characteristics at different stages of disease progression with the recent advances in drug therapy of schizophrenia was combined, to introduce clinical selection of schizophrenic drugs.
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The high incidence of schizophrenia causes a greater burden on society and family. In the past of half century, with the widespread use of schizophrenic drugs,the prognosis of clinical schizophrenia has been substantially improved after following the principles of early, effective and maintenance therapy.In this overview,the clinical characteristics at different stages of disease progression with the recent advances in drug therapy of schizophrenia was combined, to introduce clinical selection of schizophrenic drugs.
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Objective To investigate the long-term outcome of children with recurrent wheeze and to determine the effectiveness of inhaled hormone therapy. Methods One thousand and thirty-five children with recurrent wheezing were followed up for more than 4 years and the data were retrospectively evaluated. Results Of 1035 cases, 751 (72.56%) patients outgrew their wheeze during the follow-up period, whereas the other 284 (27.44%) patients had recurrence wheeze during the last two years. The age of wheezing onset was<3 years in 542 (52.37%) cases, from 3 to 7 years in 386 (37.29%) cases, and from 7 to 12 years in 107 (10.34%) cases. There was significant difference in clinical control rate among groups with different wheezing ages onset (χ2=45.27, P<0.001). Children with wheezing age onset from 7 to 12 years had the lowest clinical control rate. Among 1035 wheeze children, 343 (79.95%) children in 429 cases who received inhaled hormone therapy for more than one year outgrew their wheeze. Whereas 408 (67.35%) in 606 cases who did not receive inhaled hormone therapy outgrew their wheeze. There was significant difference of clinical control rate between inhaled group and non-inhaled group (P<0.01). Con-clusions The age of wheezing onset is<7 years in 89.66%of children with recurrent wheeze. Most of them can be clinicalycon-trolled. The long term inhaled hoemone therapy for children with recurrent wheeze can reduce the risk of developing adulthood asthma.