Fig. 2: Mean scores for HRQL for patients with seasonal (ragweed) rhinoconjunctivitis measured before, at the height of and toward the end of the ragweed pollen season. Solid lines represent patients whose first-line treatment was fluticasone nasal spray, with terfenadine tablets as back-up; broken lines represent patients whose first-line treatment was terfenadine tablets, with fluticasone nasal spary as back-up. Scores range from 0 (not bothered) to 6 (extremely bothered).

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