This study of 164 teen-agers treated at National Jewish also showed that 25 percent of the group was steroid resistant. It has been estimated that only one-tenth of a percent of the 15 million people in the United States with asthma are steroid resistant. About five million children in the U.S. have asthma. The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , is the first to examine steroid-resistant asthma in children. A person with steroid-resistant asthma receives limited reduction in airway inflammation and swelling following treatment with oral steroids.
Inhaled steroids are one of the main ways that asthma is controlled.
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