Danish data confirm low prevalence of HRT among women prescribed oral corticosteroids
- 16 November 1996
- Vol. 313 (7067) , 1264
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7067.1264
Abstract
EDITOR,—L J Walsh and colleagues report the use of oral corticosteroids in a population of 65 786 in Nottinghamshire.1 They had found few epidemiological data on the use of corticosteroids in community populations, which is surprising, since the potential side effects of corticosteroids—for example, osteoporosis, hypertension, and diabetes—are important. We report here supplementary data on the use of oral corticosteroids and hormone replacement therapy obtained from a population based prescription registry for the county …Keywords
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