[Osteoporosis caused by long-term steroid therapy of patients with chronic asthmatic bronchitis].

14 patients with chronic bronchitis were observed after from 1.5 to 8 years of regular treatment with corticosteroids of sustained action given intramuscularly. The patients were analysed from the standpoint of age, sex, duration of corticosteroid treatment, type and dose of the drugs, and smoking. In 9 of them accelerated development of osteoporosis was noted its appearance depended significantly only on age and sex.