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Bone Loss Therapy
Children who have Crohn's disease have bone loss that researchers say does not completely resolve with treatment. Traditionally, bone loss in IBD patients has been viewed as a result of steroid therapy, but a study of 67 children showed that the patients had bone and muscle loss before starting steroids. In fact, researchers found that treatment with steroids helped improve the children's body mass index and muscle mass, but did not appear to improve bone strength or muscle scores.
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