Inhaled corticosteroid use in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia

P Ernst, AV Gonzalez, P Brassard… - American journal of …, 2007 - atsjournals.org
… , we found that current inhaled corticosteroid use was associated with a significant 70%
increase in the risk of being hospitalized for pneumonia. This risk increased with higher doses of …

Inhaled steroids and the risk of hospitalization for asthma

JG Donahue, ST Weiss, JM Livingston, MA Goetsch… - Jama, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
inhaled steroids re¬ duced the risk for asthma hospitalization is consistent with a recently
reported analysis of asthma hospitalizations dur… of dis¬ pensed inhaled steroids and dispensed …

Inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and risk of death and hospitalization: time-dependent analysis

VS Fan, CL Bryson, JR Curtis, SD Fihn… - American journal of …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
… more than 80% of the time reduced the risk of all-cause mortality and COPD … inhaled
corticosteroids. We did not find a significant reduction in mortality for average inhaled steroid use at …

Inhaled corticosteroid therapy reduces the risk of rehospitalization and all-cause mortality in elderly asthmatics

DD Sin, JV Tu - European Respiratory Journal, 2001 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… The present study suggests that inhaled corticosteroid therapy can improve survival and
reduce hospitalization in elderly patients with asthma who have previously been …

Inhaled corticosteroids and the prevention of readmission to hospital for asthma

L Blais, P Ernst, JF Boivin, S Suissa - American Journal of …, 1998 - atsjournals.org
… Subjects treated regularly with inhaled corticosteroids for at least … therapy with inhaled
corticosteroids can substantially reduce the risk of a readmission for asthma after only 15 d of use. …

Inhaled or systemic corticosteroids and the risk of hospitalization for hip fracture among elderly women

E Lau, M Mamdani, K Tu - The American journal of medicine, 2003 - amjmed.com
… ), but the risks of inhaled corticosteroid use are largely unknown in these patients. We
therefore aimed to determine the relation between inhaled corticosteroid use and hip fractures in …

Regular use of inhaled corticosteroids and the long term prevention of hospitalisation for asthma

S Suissa, P Ernst, A Kezouh - Thorax, 2002 - thorax.bmj.com
… However, we found that regular inhaled corticosteroid use is also more effective than no
use, despite the wide disparity in the asthma severity of these two groups and the resulting …

Inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of mortality and readmission in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

DOND SIN, JV TU - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
… The most important finding in our study was that inhaled corticosteroid therapy … by
demonstrating that inhaled corticosteroid therapy may also reduce the hospitalization rate and …

Low-dose inhaled corticosteroid therapy and risk of emergency department visits for asthma

DD Sin, SFP Man - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
… However, users and nonusers of inhaled corticosteroids had similar rates of hospitalization
for their asthma (Table 2), suggesting that there were no significant dissimilarities in disease …

Hospitalization of adults for asthma and inhaled corticosteroid use in an island population

JM Cacciottolo, MV Balzan, A Buhagiar - Respiratory medicine, 1997 - Elsevier
… in adult hospital admission rates from asthma, this paper reports a steady increase in the
use of inhaled corticosteroids at a population level. The unit of quantity DDD was used as a …