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Inhaled corticosteroids limit symptoms of Covid-19

2021-04-29T21:15:38.992Z


DECRYPTION - The early intake of budesonide, an anti-inflammatory drug used by asthmatics, reduces the risk of hospitalization for patients.


From the spring of 2020, doctors noted that the proportion of asthma patients hospitalized for severe forms of Covid was much lower than expected.

Surprisingly, asthma usually makes patients more susceptible to respiratory viruses.

If surveys have shown that asthmatics had been particularly rigorous to protect themselves as well as possible from the virus, these behaviors were not sufficient to explain these observations.

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Quickly, the hypothesis of a protective effect of inhaled corticosteroid therapy used daily by many asthmatics surfaced.

Several clinical trials were therefore launched in the spring to assess the benefit of these treatments in the general population during Sars-CoV-2 infections.

And the results of a British study, published recently in the journal

The Lancet Respiratory Diseases

, show that the hospitalization rate is decreasing in Covid patients who received inhaled corticosteroids.

This study involves a small sample since there were only 73 patients in each group, but the results are very interesting

Prof. Gilles Devouassoux, head of the pneumology service at the Croix-Rousse hospital.

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Source: lefigaro

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