Landmark Study Shows Steroids Must Be Tapered Early
Steroids must be tapered early to avoid long-term steroid-toxicities, according to a landmark 3-year observational study of severe asthma patients. The latest data, published in the Journal of ...
Integrating the GTI into Routine Clinical Practice
A recent study published in the journal Rheumatology has investigated the use of the Steritas Glucocorticoid Toxicity Index (GTI) for monitoring steroid-toxicity in clinical practice for individual ...
Unveiling the Prevalence of Steroid-induced Myopathy
A landmark study by an international group of researchers has highlighted that the risks of developing glucocorticoid-induced myopathy are higher than previously recognized and correlate strongly ...
Steroid-toxicity Drives Increased Organ Damage in Lupus Nephritis
Recent research by Joo and colleagues at The Catholic University of Korea, Department of Rheumatology has shown that for many lupus nephritis patients, the cure may be at least as damaging as the ...
Rapid Tapering Reduces Steroid-toxicity in GCA
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory disease of large and medium-sized blood vessels, primarily affecting people over the age of 50. GCA is the most common form of vasculitis and is ...
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