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Postgrad Med J 2002;78:572 doi:10.1136/pmj.78.923.572
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Osteoporosis prophylaxis during corticosteroid treatment

  1. I Chattopadhyay,
  2. A R Showkathali,
  3. A K Jain
  1. Department of Medicine, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Wrexham LL13 7TD, UK; indrajit.chatterjee@ukgateway.net

      We congratulate Hart and Green for flagging up a worrying concern—failure to provide appropriate osteoporosis prophylaxis during planned long term corticosteroid treatment.1 We would like to complement their views by sharing the results of a similar study undertaken in our district general hospital between May and July 2001.

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