Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cadre.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: anti-inflammatories Message-ID: <485@cadre.ARPA> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 08:55:40 EDT Article-I.D.: cadre.485 Posted: Fri Aug 16 08:55:40 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 06:32:26 EDT References: <3298@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <392@bbncc5.UUCP> Reply-To: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks) Organization: Decision Systems Lab., University of Pittsburgh Lines: 9 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.