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In patients with inflammatory diseases without diabetes, treatment with low-dose prednisolone has deleterious effects on carbohydrate metabolism, according to a study published online May 13 in Diabetes Care.
Carolyn J. Petersons, MBBS, from Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues examined carbohydrate metabolism in nine subjects (mean age, 59 years) with inflammatory rheumatologic disease without diabetes mellitus before and after a seven- to 10-day course of oral prednisolone (6mg daily). Carbohydrate metabolism was also examined in 12 subjects (mean age, 61 years), also with inflammatory rheumatologic disease without diabetes mellitus, using continuous long-term prednisolone (mean, 6.3mg per day).
http://www.empr.com/prednisolone-disturbs-carbohydrate-metabolism/article/293812/#
Carolyn J. Petersons, MBBS, from Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues examined carbohydrate metabolism in nine subjects (mean age, 59 years) with inflammatory rheumatologic disease without diabetes mellitus before and after a seven- to 10-day course of oral prednisolone (6mg daily). Carbohydrate metabolism was also examined in 12 subjects (mean age, 61 years), also with inflammatory rheumatologic disease without diabetes mellitus, using continuous long-term prednisolone (mean, 6.3mg per day).
http://www.empr.com/prednisolone-disturbs-carbohydrate-metabolism/article/293812/#