New Study Links Inhaled Corticosteroids to Sleep Apnoea
A study can now explain why asthma patients will often suffer from sleep apnoea. The big puzzle was how asthma, a condition that affects the lungs, causes sleep apnoea that occurs in the throat. Corticosteroids reduce airway inflammation, but there have been no studies to show how they affect the pharyngeal upper airway.
Corticosteroids pills and inhaled corticosteroids have been shown to affect the airways especially the pharyngeal upper airway. Corticosteroids have long been known to cause muscle weakness and fat accumulation. It was found that the older male subjects with poor asthma control demonstrated deterioration in their upper airway collapsibility.
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