| Doctors had hypothesized that inhaled steroids might help such people because, like asthma patients, they suffer shortness of breath. However, two studies in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine found steroids to be of little help. The two studeis were conducted separately by Niewoehner and colleagues at 25 VA medical centers and by Dr. Romain A. Pauwels of University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium, and colleagues. |
