… corticosteroids, corticosteroid doses, and patient age. Specifically, patients treated with high-…
corticosteroid doses, such as the use of dose-packs or corticosteroids in minimal doses that …

… We hypothesized that corticosteroid prophylaxis may have a dose-dependent effect on … a
dose-response meta-analysis to assess the clinical benefits and risks of corticosteroid use in …

… This is the first meta-analysis on this topic and the first review to show benefits of such …
between corticosteroid and placebo up to two years.2 This study also used a higher dose of …

… Meta-analysis of 21 studies that evaluated effects on 24-hour or overnight urinary cortisol …
doses of inhaled corticosteroid. The data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis of …

… , we included articles irrespective of the time between last corticosteroid use … meta-analysis
had all articles used a time gap of at least 24 hours between the last dose of corticosteroids …

… of corticosteroid effectiveness. We also sought to define the relative effectiveness of corticosteroid
… Based on clinical perceptions, we hypothesized that low-dose corticosteroids would …

… corticosteroid dose and loss of bone mineral density have reported inconsistent results. In
this meta-analysis, … to examine the effects of oral corticosteroids on bone mineral density and …

… are dose-dependent during sepsis. Therefore, our meta-analysis suggests that lower, more
physiologic doses … Physicians should administer low-dose corticosteroids selectively to septic …

… that higher doses of corticosteroids may give greater improvement. The interpretation of
the subgroups of higher doses requires caution as there was a range of doses and episode …

… Conclusions For all trials, regardless of duration of treatment and dose, use of corticosteroids
did not significantly affect mortality. With long courses of low doses of corticosteroids, …