Long-term inhaled corticosteroid treatment and severe asthma in children - the impact on body height and weight
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Background Chronic conditions such as asthma are usually stigmatized as one of the reasons for short stature. A widespread belief also is that prolonged long-term treatment with corticosteroids will lead to elevated body weight and also could lead to short stature. Therefore we evaluated the height and weight status in the children admitted in the hospital for asthma attack regarding the asthma severity, the natural history of asthma and inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment period.
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