Asthma Drug Shown to Stunt Growth
Sept. 4, 2012 -- Children with asthma who take inhaled steroids end up slightly shorter than their peers when they grow up, a government-funded study shows.....

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The Asthma Medication That's Making Us Shorter

It turns out that the stunted growth associated with the use of budesonide, a long-term medication commonly used to control childhood asthma, is likely permanent. That's according to a study presented yesterday at the European Respiratory Society meeting in Vienna and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.....

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Kids' Asthma Med Trims a Bit from Adult Height

Asthmatic children who used an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) for up to 6 years in a randomized trial grew up to be about one-half inch shorter on average than those in the study's placebo group, researchers said.....

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