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John Hopkins experts advise greater caution for COPD sufferers
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Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins have advocated for greater caution in prescribing inhaled corticosteroids for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) sufferers.
This call for caution came after evidence suggested that inhaled corticosteroids, one of the most widely used anti-inflammatory medications, increase the risk of pneumonia by a full third.
From News-Medical.Net:
“Physicians really need to strongly evaluate a patient’s individual characteristics before prescribing these steroid medications, and patients, in turn, should weigh the risks and benefits of taking the drugs, despite their proven record in providing symptomatic relief,” he says.
According to pulmonologist M. Brad Drummond, M.D., M.H.S., who led the study, “catching this bacterial infection can seriously disrupt quality of life, making it harder for COPD patients to breathe and possibly leading to hospitalization.”
Drummond says the new findings should serve as a reminder to people with the severe lung disease to take steps that reduce the chance of getting pneumonia, which doubles their risk of dying when compared to people with healthy lungs. He also advises COPD sufferers, in addition to weighing the benefits and harms of steroids, to get the pneumonia vaccination every five years and an annual flu vaccination because these shots reduce the chance of getting a lung infection.
Drummond suggested that people suffering from lung disease must take additional precautions such as frequent hand washing to ensure that they lead a normal and healthy life. It was also remarked that further research is a must for providing greater relief to COPD sufferers.
This study is expected to provide a great relief to existing 120,000 Americans suffering from COPD, which is expected to become the nation’s third leading cause of death in the United States by the year 2020.
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