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From: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: anti-inflammatories
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 08:55:40 EDT
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I am not sure that there is any hard evidence that anti-inflammatory
drugs provide more than symptomatic relief (perhaps Craig
will be kind enough to do a search), but since inflammation
is thought to be a factor in the process of deposition of calcium
leading to osteophytes, it would stand to reason that controlling
the inflammation may have long term beneficial effects in preventing
disability.  Proof would require long-term longitudinal studies,
and thus might not have been done yet.