Evidence suggesting that oral corticosteroids increase mortality in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Oral corticosteroids were used to control stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) decades ago. However, recent guidelines do not recommend long-term oral corticosteroids (LTOC) use for stable COPD patients, partly because it causes side-effects such as respiratory muscle dete...

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Auteurs principaux: Horita, Nobuyuki, Miyazawa, Naoki, Morita, Satoshi, Kojima, Ryota, Inoue, Miyo, Ishigatsubo, Yoshiaki, Kaneko, Takeshi
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976535/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24708443
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-37
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