Steroid use associated with five-fold increase of blood clots in IBD patients

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Steroid use associated with five-fold increase of blood clots in IBD patients

Compared with biologic therapy, corticosteroid (steroid) use is associated with a nearly five-fold increase of venous thromboembolism in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, according to a new study1 in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Source: Steroid use associated with five-fold increase of blood clots in IBD patients

 

[tunaman7]

Cortico...not AAS! But watch the public and the news media run with this!

 

[massdig]

This article is making me want to take a shit