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Article: Long-term use of inhaled steroids may increase risk of cataracts.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 8, 2003
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2003 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Long-term use of inhaled steroids to prevent asthma symptoms may increase the risk of cataracts, suggests new research.
Previous research has indicated that systemic steroids increase the risk of cataract, but whether the inhaled variety also carries a risk has not been known.
The researchers based their findings on information from the U.K.'s General Practice Research Database, which contains complete prescribing and diagnostic information for almost 1.5 million patients from 177 general practices in England and Wales. The study is published in the October 2003 issue of the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
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