ASSESSMENT OF THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LOW DOSES INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS IN ASTHMATIC CHILDREN

摘要

The way in which inhaled corticosteroids influence the growth and the development of the children with asthma is relatively little studied, the results being often contradictory. The study was conducted on two hundred subjects with one hundred children with asthma treated with inhaled corticosteroids and one hundred represented the control group. They were divided into five categories of age; we performed measurements every six months for a period of two years. The results showed a significant influence of the inhaled corticosteroid therapy on the growth rate of the asthmatic patients.