Medical sciences have once again come up with some great news, this time for the asthma patients, particularly women. Studies carried out in America reveal that that older women suffering from asthma who inhale steroids are at much lesser risk to fall prey to other ailments or causes over five years as compared to those not taking them. Where on one hand, it does state that inhaling corticosteroids does help older women fight causes of various ailments; it does not guarantee that this might work against cases of cancer.
However, the good news is that taking inhaled steroids have also been found to greatly lessen the risk of illnesses developing from cardiovascular malfunctions in the body. The report was formed by first studying 2,671 women suffering from asthma persistently. The older women who were found to be healthier than others showed that they were taking inhaled steroids.
From NDTV Doctor:
Therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) decreases the risk of asthma exacerbations. Recent studies have suggested that ICS therapy also may decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, and perhaps of all-cause mortality. To examine this hypothesis in a large, well-characterised cohort of asthmatic women, researchers from America studied 2,671 women with persistent asthma. The participants were asked to complete supplementary asthma questionnaire. Fifty-four percent of these women reported inhaled steroid use.
Over the next five years, it was found that 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). The use of inhaled steroid therapy at the outset, relative to non-use, was found to be 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. However, using inhaled steroids did not significantly cut the risk of dying from cancer or other causes.
Hence we see that if taken a little earlier, inhaled steroid therapy can prove to be of great advantage for cases beyond improved asthma control as well. Furthermore, the results of two recent studies from Canada add that steroids taken in the body in inhaled form can have great benefits outside the lungs as well.
Thus to add and subtract a few causes like cancer, we see that inhaled steroids have proved to be highly beneficial of asthma patients, particularly older women. The result of the research clearly reveal that around 42 percent of asthmatic women showed greater immunity against any illness and 65 percent particularly against cardio vascular diseases.
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