As per a recently concluded study, older asthmatic women using inhaled steroids are less likely to die from any ailment over five years when compared to women not using any inhaled steroids.

It was reported by Dr. Carlos A. Camargo Jr., from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and colleagues that two recent studies from Canada suggested that inhaled steroid treatment can have benefits beyond the lung.

From Reuter.com:

Their findings stem from 2,671 women with persistent asthma participating in the Nurses’ Health Study who responded to a 1998 supplementary asthma questionnaire. Fifty-four percent of these women reported inhaled steroid use in 1998.

Over the next five years, 87 women (3.3 percent) died. Twenty two women died of cardiovascular causes, 31 from cancer, and 34 died from “other” causes (including 4 from asthma).

According to Camargo and colleagues, use of inhaled steroid therapy at the outset, relative to non-use, was associated with a significant 42 percent reduced likelihood of dying from any cause and a 65 percent reduced likelihood of dying from a heart-related cause.

It was remarked that the apparent non-pulmonary benefits of inhaled steroids remained strong after the involved researchers controlled for varying factors that had the abilities to possibly influence the research results.

These findings suggested that the long-term benefits of an early inhaled steroid therapy have the unique ability to go well beyond asthma management in an effective manner.

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