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Article: Study: Inhaled steroids don't prevent asthma in toddlers
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- May 10, 2006
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ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
AP Worldstream
05-10-2006
Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Giving inhaled steroids to toddlers at high risk of developing asthma helps them in the short term but doesn't prevent the chronic condition as had hoped, a federal study suggests.
Similarly, a study in Denmark found that taking inhaled steroids doesn't stave off asthma in infants.
"Although inhaled corticosteroids may control persistent or severe wheezing, such drugs should not be used in the hope of altering the course of asthma in childhood," wrote Drs. Diane Gold and Anne Fuhlbrigge of Harvard Medical School, who had no role in the research.
Both studies appear in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
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