Adverse effects of oral corticosteroids in relation to dose in patients with lung disease

Thorax

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 279-284

  Walsh, L J ^a   Wong, C A ^a   Oborne, J ^a   Cooper, S ^a   Lewis, S A ^a   Pringle, M ^b   Hubbard, R ^a   Tattersfield, A E ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Dosage; Fractures; Oral corticosteroids; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; CANDIDIASIS; CATARACT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0035061065     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.56.4.279     Document Type: Article

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