Inhaled corticosteroid asthma treatment linked to adrenal suppression

Even low-dose treatment courses of inhaled corticosteroids for asthma can lead to adrenal suppression including fatigue, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting and psychiatric symptoms, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.
“The initial motivation was to look at the difference in the metabolome for individuals with asthma relative to controls and to identify some asthma-specific metabolic signatures,” Jessica A. Lasky-Su, DSc, MS, associate statistician with the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Healio.
“While

Even low-dose treatment courses of inhaled corticosteroids for asthma can lead to adrenal suppression including fatigue, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting and psychiatric symptoms, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.
“The initial motivation was to look at the difference in the metabolome for individuals with asthma relative to controls and to identify some asthma-specific metabolic signatures,” Jessica A. Lasky-Su, DSc, MS, associate statistician with the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Healio.
“While