Poor knowledge of safety aspects of long-term steroid use among patients and healthcare professionals

Autor:	M. A. Adlan, Ishrat Khan, Lakdasa Premawardhana, Kate Grounds
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Health Personnel Population 030209 endocrinology & metabolism 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Patient Education as Topic Hypoadrenalism medicine Humans Clinical and Scientific Letters Intensive care medicine education education.field_of_study Health professionals business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) General Medicine Middle Aged Term (time) Steroid use Steroids business
Zdroj:	Clinical Medicine. 17:378-380
ISSN:	1473-4893 1470-2118
DOI:	10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-378
Popis:	Hypoadrenalism (primary and secondary) affects 4/10,000 individuals.[1][1] But the commonest cause of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression is exogenous steroid use, and about 1% of the UK population are on such therapy.[2][2] These steroid-treated subjects have a higher incidence of
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