Alternate day corticosteroid causes alternate day hyperglycaemia
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- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 63 (743), 761-764
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.63.743.761
Abstract
Summary: Patients taking alternate day corticosteroid treatment have greater impairment of glucose tolerance on the corticosteroid day than on the alternate day. Allowance for this must be made in the detection and management of diabetes mellitus in these patients.Keywords
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