Escitalopram in Asthma Patients With Frequent Exacerbation

Korábbi kezelés

• Currently taking an antidepressant (antidepressants that are not SSRIs nor SNRIs prescribed for an indication other than depression at subtherapeutic doses are acceptable)

Más betegség

• Current substance use disorder and/or current tobacco use or greater than 10 pack-years lifetime use
• A current MDD episode as well as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder

Laborértékek

• Severe or life-threatening medical illness that would make completion of study unlikely or clinically significant laboratory or ECG findings at baseline

Életkor

• Vulnerable populations including intellectual disability or other severe cognitive impairment, inmates, pregnant or nursing women or women of childbearing age who will not use UT Southwestern IRB-approved methods of birth control or abstinence during the study

Egyéb

• High risk for suicide defined as > 1 past suicide attempts or any attempt within the past 12 months

• Moderate to severe persistent asthma
• Treatment with medium to high dose ICS and LABA therapy
• Three or more severe asthma exacerbations (requiring ≥ 3 days of systemic corticosteroids) in the past year
• Age 18-75 years old, male or female sex, English or Spanish speaking
• Participants will be required to be clinically stable with no recent exacerbations, infections or changes in asthma controller therapy for at least 4 weeks before study entry
• Biologic therapy for asthma (e.g., omalizumab, mepolizumab, reslizumab, benralizumab, dupilumab, tezepelumab) will be allowed if started at least 6 months prior to randomization