Reply to Nagant de Deuxchaisnes

✍ Scribed by Thomas R. Dykman

• Book ID: 101646501
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780290519

✦ Synopsis

and non-glucocorticoid-treated postmenopausal RA patients may be that the bone resorbing influences of the disease itself and the menopausal state have left little to be depleted by glucocorticoids.

Integrating the present knowledge of the effects of glucocorticoids on RA patients, it seems wise to prescribe these drugs carefully, to use a low dose, to give postmenopausal patients estrogen-progestogen substitution therapy, and finally, to not ignore the potential hazards of these drugs when prescribed for premenopausal RA patients as well.