(Total Views: 843)
Posted On: 07/07/2020 10:30:31 AM
Post# of 155763
Study out this week details corticosteroid side effects.
Medpage Today is a large daily medical clip-sheet. The article notes dexamethasone is exactly this type of corticosteroid.
"Corticosteroid bursts as short as 2 weeks or less were still linked to severe adverse events among relatively healthy users, according to a large study from Taiwan.
For people taking oral steroids over a median 3 days, the risk of such events was elevated in the 5-30 days after steroid therapy initiation compared with the reference period (5-90 days before initiation):
GI bleeding: 27.1 per 1,000 person-years (incidence rate ratio 1.80, 95% CI 1.75-1.84)
Sepsis: 1.5 per 1,000 person-years (IRR 1.99, 95% CI 1.70-2.32)
Heart failure: 1.3 per 1,000 person-years (IRR 2.37, 95% CI 2.13-2.63)"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/gene...ews_Active
Medpage Today is a large daily medical clip-sheet. The article notes dexamethasone is exactly this type of corticosteroid.
"Corticosteroid bursts as short as 2 weeks or less were still linked to severe adverse events among relatively healthy users, according to a large study from Taiwan.
For people taking oral steroids over a median 3 days, the risk of such events was elevated in the 5-30 days after steroid therapy initiation compared with the reference period (5-90 days before initiation):
GI bleeding: 27.1 per 1,000 person-years (incidence rate ratio 1.80, 95% CI 1.75-1.84)
Sepsis: 1.5 per 1,000 person-years (IRR 1.99, 95% CI 1.70-2.32)
Heart failure: 1.3 per 1,000 person-years (IRR 2.37, 95% CI 2.13-2.63)"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/gene...ews_Active
(2)
(0)
