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Nature World News |
Drugs Used in Asthma Inhalers Make Children Half a Centimeter Shorter than …
Nature World News New research suggests that inhaled corticosteroids, drugs given to people suffering from asthma, can suppress growth in children in the first year of the treatment. Two study reviews, conducted by researchers at Federal University of Rio Grande in Rio … |
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Guardian Liberty Voice |
Corticosteroid Asthma Inhalers May Suppress Growth in Children
Guardian Liberty Voice asthma Hundreds of thousands of children with asthma use corticosteroid inhalers to help them breathe, but according to a new study from Brazil the medications commonly found in those inhalers may suppress growth. The scientific review, which … |
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Children Using Asthma Inhalers Shorter Than Peers, Study Says
Design & Trend (Photo : Wikipedia) Asthma treatments during the first year of treatment have been shown to suppress growth in children. New research suggests that inhaled corticosteroids, drugs given to people suffering from asthma, can also suppress growth in … |
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TheHealthSite |
Are asthma inhalers responsible for making your children grow slower?
TheHealthSite asthma in children Kids with asthma who take corticosteroid drugs via inhalers run the risk of less growth, an study suggests. 'Children treated daily with inhaled corticosteroids may grow approximately half a centimetre less during the first year of … |
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YottaFire |
Use of asthma inhalers may be linked to reduced growth rate in children
YottaFire Drugs found in inhalers used by asthmatic patients impede the growth rate in children, two recent scientific reviews suggest. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are commonly used in long-term control of asthma, and are considered the most effective medicine … |
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Asthma inhalers may suppress children's growth
News-Medical.net Corticosteroid drugs that are given by inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, evidence suggests. Two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. |
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Mirror.co.uk |
Asthma inhalers 'can stunt growth of kids'
Mirror.co.uk During the first year of treatment, the widely used remedies cut growth rates by about half a centimetre, said scientists. But they and other experts stressed that slight loss of growth was a small price to pay for protection against potentially lethal … |
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Telegraph.co.uk |
Asthma inhalers make children half a centimetre shorter
Telegraph.co.uk British health experts and asthma charities said that half a centimetre was a 'small price to pay' for medicine which could save a child's life. Some 1.1 million children are treated each year for asthma with inhaled corticosteroids prescribed as the … |
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Daily Mail |
Asthma inhalers 'stunt growth': Most widely-used device found to reduce height …
Daily Mail 'For a long time now people with asthma have told us they fear the side effects of taking asthma medicines but the good news is this evidence shows only a relatively minor impact from inhaled corticosteroids. No parent should therefore stop their … |
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The Independent |
Asthma inhalers can stunt growth in children, new research finds
The Independent Samantha Walker, director of research and policy at the charity Asthma Research UK, said: "For a long time now people with asthma have told us they fear the side effects of taking asthma medicines but the good news is this evidence shows only a … |
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