Peter Attia· MD
Common drugs that can negatively impact BMD
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Common drugs that can negatively impact BMD
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And I think the most common of these that we see is corticosteroids. Now that's not always systemic coreroids. You know, it's not always people that have had to take lots of steroids for an illness. It can also be inhaled coreroids. And we see this actually in a number of patients who had significant asthma as children and used a lot of inhaled corticosteroids.
And the other thing we look at is uh is people who have had high exposure to drugs that affect bone metabolism.
And I think the most common of these that we see is corticosteroids. Now that's not always systemic coreroids. You know, it's not always people that have had to take lots of steroids for illness. It can also be inhaled coreroids. And we see this actually in a number of patients who had significant asthma as children and used a lot of inhaled cortosteroids.
The other thing we look at is uh is people who have had high exposure to drugs that affect bone metabolism. And I think the most common of these that we see is corticosteroids.