Glucocorticoid therapy is the most common cause of secondary osteoporosis and the leading iatrogenic cause of the disease. 1–3 Often, the presenting manifestation is fracture, which occurs in 30 ...

Glucocorticoids are still one of the most commonly used treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, with an estimated up to 50% of patients with RA in the United States using them long-term as of 2021.

In patients with a rheumatic disease in whom glucocorticoid therapy was initiated at a daily dose of at least 7.5 mg of prednisone or the equivalent and who were treated for 18 months with ...

Glucocorticoid doses exceeding the equivalent of 40 mg prednisone daily are associated with a considerable risk of psychosis, particularly within the first 5 days of treatment. 82 Patients with ...

Glucocorticoid tapering, education and treatment of adrenal crisis are three of the main focuses of a new clinical practice guideline on glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency. The Endocrine ...

Janssens et al. conducted a randomized, double-blind, equivalence clinical trial to determine whether the glucocorticoid prednisolone can be used as an alternative to NSAIDs in this setting.

Moreover, in the glucocorticoid-continuing subpopulation, treatment with Prolia was associated with significant increases in lumbar spine BMD compared with active-control (3.8% vs 0.8%; treatment ...

Guidelines recommend minimizing glucocorticoid exposure in patients with lupus (SLE), and research suggests this advice should also apply to those with lupus nephritis.

The glucocorticoid dose at TMP-SMX discontinuation was significantly higher in patients with PJP than in those without the condition (median, 22.5 vs 10.0 mg prednisone-equivalent corticosteroids ...

METHODS: We analyzed electronic health records from 389 practices in England during 1998–2017 of adults diagnosed with any of 6 chronic inflammatory diseases but with no previous diagnosis of ...