Inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of fracture in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Open Access

2 June 2007

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Vol. 100 (8) , 509-517
https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcm056

Abstract

Background: Inhaled corticosteroids are used increasingly to treat people with COPD, but the extent to which these drugs increase the risk of fracture is unclear.

Keywords

INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS
COPD
PULMONARY
OBSTRUCTIVE
EXTENT
RISK OF FRACTURE
USED INCREASINGLY

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