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Scientific review finds asthma drugs suppress child growth
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LONDON (Reuters) – Corticosteroid drugs given via inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, according to two systematic reviews of scientific studies on the issue. Health experts who conducted the review and published it in The
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Scientific review finds asthma drugs suppress child growth
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The first of the two systematic reviews focused on 25 trials involving 8,471 children up to 18 years old with mild to moderate persistent asthma. These trials tested almost all the available inhaled corticosteroids and showed they suppressed growth
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Scientific review finds asthma drugs suppress child growth
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LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) – Corticosteroid drugs given via inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, according to two systematic reviews of scientific studies on the issue. Health experts who conducted the review and published it in
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Asthma Inhalers Could Stunt Height Growth, Study Finds
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A new study has found that children who use certain types of asthma inhalers end up shorter than normal in adulthood. The study, published this week in the New England Journal of Medecine, looked at over 1,000 children from ages 5 to 12 who were
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Sept. 4, 2012 — Children with asthma who take inhaled steroids end up slightly shorter than their peers when they grow up, a government-funded study shows. Inhaled steroids are known to slow growth in children during the first years of use, but the
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