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#129 Steroids: 5 Pearls Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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What Are the Side Effects of Steroids?

Weight gain, bone, de-meritalization, osteoporosis is a real thing. Blood sugars, you know, someone who has well-controlled type 2 diabetes placed on prednisone 20 milligrams twice daily and prednisone, their blood sugar is going to go through the roof. Increase infection, dyslipidemia are all real issues that chronically over time do increase our risk for heart attack strokes, metabolic disease. If we didn't pulse people who are in the ICU intubated with pulmonary renal syndrome, they would die. So it's a trade-off.

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