Hi, everyone. I found my old radio broadcast material
Dr. Cho's 3 minutes Health column
So, I decided to re-record and give this content to you
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There was saying in medical field
you can either be a great of bad doctor, depends on how you use steroid in right or wrong clinical settings.
Steroid first came out in 1930
started to use in clinical setting in 1948 for rheumatoid arthritis patients
In 1956, Russian wrestler used steroid
and had very good result, so it gain popularity.
so, at time, it was know to be a "miracle drug"
and was used without control
but then found many side effects of steroids
then, steroid was viewed as evil of the medicine
But, steroid is continued to be used in many diseases with good results
Today, we will talk about articles from the Journal of Rheumatology, published on August 2017
comparison between NSAIDs vs steroid for acute gout attack treatment
We commonly use NSAIDs as first line of treatment for gout attack
But we cannot use NSAIDs on patients with chronic kidney disease
So, we have to use steroid
As a kidney specialists, I often use steroid for gout attack as well.
But there were many studies showing
Steroid may be as good as NSAIDs for non-kidney patients for acute gout attack treatment
on article published on August 2017,
reviewed many articles on this issue
steroid was as effective as NSAIDs
but steroid had less side effects
they reviewed 534 patients for pain control between steroid vs NSAIDs
found same pain control between steroid vs NSAIDs
other clinical trial with 506 patients had similar result
several other clinical trials shows similar findings
but on 526 patients trial, they found less side effects on steroid treated patients
Steroid caused 50% less GI/gastritis symptoms
cuased 25% less nausea, 11% less vomiting
I present many medical journal articles on my channel.
The reason is medical science advance very rapidly nowadays
new treatments comes out all the time
even same medicine may be found to be effective on other diesases
or it may have less side effects to treat such diseases
when we choose more uptodate proven medical treatment,
I believe patient will be better and healthier
I presented 3-minutes radio talkshow material I had in 2017,
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