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Steroid Treatment for COPD Exacerbations: Five Days Just as Effective as 14 Days
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(October 2013)
If you or a loved one has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sometimes known as emphysema, and suffers from periodic acute COPD exacerbations requiring steroids, you should know that new research demonstrates that a five-day course of steroids for treating such exacerbations works just as well as a conventional 14-day course.