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Thio et?al. was the only study to express the results of three parallel groups as the logPD20 and was therefore analyzed separately. Meta-analysis found an improvement in PC20 of 0.43 (95% CI, 0.16�C0.69) in favor of treatment with any form of INCS. Subgroup analyses found an improvement in PC20 of 0.46 (95% CI, 0.12�C0.79) in studies http://www.selleck.cn/products/blu9931.html comparing only INCS spray to placebo and no improvement in studies evaluating INCS spray in addition to baseline administration of orally inhaled corticosteroids (WMD?=?0.38; 95% CI, ?0.05 to 0.81). An analysis of results from Thio et?al. did not find a significant difference between INCS spray and placebo (WMD?=??0.22; 95% CI, ?0.58 to 0.15). There was no significant heterogeneity between studies for any results. The subgroup of studies administering nasally inhaled corticosteroids did not report bronchial reactivity as an outcome. http://www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk1120212-jtp-74057.html Nine trials reported asthma symptom scores using various scales (Fig.?4) [30, 32, 34, 35, 38, 41-43, 45, 47]. The pooled data analysis of these nine studies demonstrated a significant improvement in asthma symptom scores of 0.69 (95% CI, 0.04�C1.35) between patients receiving INCS (any form) vs placebo [30, 32, 34, 35, 38, 41-43, 45, 47]. Subgroup analyses of studies comparing only INCS spray to intranasal placebo also found an improvement in symptom scores of 0.42 (95% CI, 0.03�C0.53) [30, 32, 34, 38, 41, 42]. Three trials compared INCS spray with concurrent administration of orally inhaled corticosteroids to orally inhaled corticosteroids alone. The pooled analysis of these three studies showed no significant difference (SMD?=??0.24; 95% CI, ?1.31 to 0.82) in asthma symptom scores. Lastly, the two studies comparing nasally inhaled corticosteroids to placebo each individually showed improvement in asthma symptom scores; however, pooled analysis demonstrated a nonsignificant improvement in asthma symptom scores with active treatment (WMD?=?1.39; 95% CI, ?0.17 to 2.94) [46, 47]. Four studies assessed asthma-specific Quality of life (QOL) [31, 35, 39, 44]. One study evaluated QOL using the Pediatric http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Bortezomib.html Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) for the comparison of INCS spray to intranasal placebo (mean difference?=?0.20; 95% CI, ?0.19 to 0.59) [35]. A second study used the Juniper Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire for the comparison of INCS spray plus orally inhaled corticosteroids to orally inhaled corticosteroids alone, showing no difference (mean difference?=??0.11; 95% CI, ?0.56 to 0.34) [44]. The results of these two studies were combined for meta-analysis and revealed a nonsignificant overall improvement of 0.04 in QoL units (95% CI, ?0.42 to 0.49) [35, 44]. Of the two remaining studies assessing changes in QoL, neither reported values in a manner that allowed pooling of the data for meta-analysis. However, both Baiardini et?al. and Scichilone et?al. reported significant improvement in lower airway QOL with the use of INCS spray compared to placebo (P?