Study of Efficacy and Long-Term Safety of Mometasone Furoate in Combination With Formoterol Fumarate Versus Mometasone Furoate in Children (5 to 11 Years of Age) With Persistent Asthma (MK-0887A-087)

Exclusion Criteria

• •Requires \>8 inhalations per day of albuterol (100 mcg per actuation), and/or \>2 nebulized treatments per day of 2.5 mg albuterol on any 2 consecutive days
• •Has a clinical worsening of asthma that results in emergency room visit (for an asthma exacerbation), hospitalization due to asthma, or treatment with additional, excluded asthma medication (other than SABA) between the Screening and Baseline visits.
• •Is considered by the investigator to have unstable asthma at the end of the run-in period
• •Has had \> 4 asthma exacerbations (defined as a worsening of asthma requiring systemic corticosteroid use and/or ≥ 24-hour stay in an emergency department, urgent care center, or hospital) within 1 year prior to visit 1
• •Has had a history of life-threatening asthma
• •Has a clinically significant condition or situation, other than the condition being studied which may interfere with trial evaluations, participant safety, or optimal participation in the trial