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Long-term Effect of Inhaled Corticosteroids on Growth Rate in Adolescents With Asthma

DOI

113

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0

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1993

Year

Peter Merkus, Philip H. Quanjer, E. E. M. van Essen-Zandvliet, K. F. Kerrebijn, Eric J. Duiverman, Hans C. van Houwelingen
PEDIATRICS

Abstract

Growth retardation observed in adolescents with asthma may be due to a delay in puberty but not to the prescription of 0.6 mg of budesonide daily.