Three out of every one hundred Americans take Glucocorticoids for medical conditions like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), lupus and other auto-immune disorders. People of all ages take steroids, so this new approval opens up a new class of patients who could use this besides the normal age-related osteoporosis group, which prompted the FDA to update the language on the black box warning for osteosarcoma.
Glucocorticoids are a class of steroid hormone. A few examples...
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