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Inhaled Corticosteroids effective than Sodium Cromoglycate for asthma treatment

Inhaled Corticosteroids effective than Sodium Cromoglycate for asthma treatment Inhaled corticosteroids are far better than sodium cromoglycate for controlling asthma besides enhancing quality of lung function to a considerable extent, as per a recent study.

It was remarked by Dr James Guevara, Department of Pediatrics at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine in Philadelphia and lead review author of this study that the untamed superiority of inhaled corticosteroids appears to improve with moderately low doses, as compared to low doses.

From News.Bio-Medicine.org:

Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and sodium cromoglycate (SCG) are both used to help people with asthma. SCG is believed to have a low risk of causing long-term side effects, but despite anxieties relating to routine use of steroids, the use of ICS has steadily increased since the 1990s.

While they are both known to work, there has previously been a debate as to whether one is superior to the other.

By pooling data from randomized controlled trials that directly compared the effects of ICS and SCG the Cochrane Review Authors could assess the relative benefits of each. They considered measures of lung function, asthma control and the use of general healthcare services such as GPs and hospitals.

Their conclusion was that ICS controls asthma better than SCG and that it also leads to improved lung function. They were, however, unable to decide whether there were differences in side-effects as most of the trials ran for too short a time to assess long-term outcomes.

“The superiority of ICS over SCG appears to increase when patients use moderate doses of ICS, compared with when low doses of ICS are used,” says lead Review Author Dr James Guevara, who works in the department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

It was concluded by Dr Guevara that asthma can be effectively controlled by corticosteroids as compared to sodium cromoglycate and can be prescribed by medical practitioners to their patients fighting with asthma.

It is believed that the finding of this study would prove beneficial to approximately one million asthma patients in the United States alone.