Rheumatoid arthritis | Arthritis drugs bone density offspring

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Here's an interesting question... does drug treatment in pregnancy affect the bone density of offspring? The answer next.
Medication use and rheumatoid disease activity... the possible effect on offspring.
Prednisone use and active disease are associated with reduced bone density in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The question then is this... do these factors also affect the bone density of children born to mothers with either of these issues? A Dutch study from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam published in Arthritis and Rheumatology followed 255 mothers and 108 children of these mothers. What the investigators found was that neither medication use nor high rheumatoid arthritis disease activity during pregnancy is associated with low bone density in offspring at an age of 7 years, on average. The authors concluded the benefit of medication use for rheumatoid arthritis during pregnancy outweighs the effect on bone density in the offspring.
Comment: This is comforting hews for women who are pregnant and need to know about this issue.
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