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Asthma May Result in Bone Loss!

Posted on: 08/Feb/2015 3:25:23 PM

People enduring from asthma may be more lying to bone loss as studies have now bared links amid asthma and a cutback in bone mineral density.

We all aware that persistent use of corticosteroids in the medication of asthma is a hazard factor of osteoporosis, but we do not had an explicit data revealing the rapport between asthma itself and bone loss, described senior experts at Medical Research Centre in South Korea.

This study has publicized a significant connotation connecting the two states even in the dearth of erstwhile oral corticosteroid use, experts added. In a recent study, researchers inspected more than 7,000 patients, 433 of which had Airway Hyper-Responsiveness (AHR) or asthma. Lumber spine and femur bone density was considerably lesser in those with AHR or asthma, than those deprived the conditions, presented the findings of the study.

Reasons can embrace corticosteroid use, low intensities of vitamin D or even race, says chief editor of the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology that printed in the study.