{"id":73,"date":"2009-02-27T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/reugcc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:59:02","slug":"reugcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/reugcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative Potencies of Systemic Glucocorticoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Glucocorticosteroids are a product of the adrenal cortex and perform a staggering number of physiological effects essential for life. Their clinical use is largely predicated on their anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\" width=\"192\"><strong>Glucocorticoid<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; height: 48px;\" width=\"192\"><strong>Approximate Equivalent dose (mg)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; height: 48px;\" width=\"192\"><strong>Half-life (Biologic) hours<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\" width=\"576\">Short-Acting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Cortisone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">25<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">8-12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 22px;\" width=\"192\">Hydrocortisone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 22px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">20<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 22px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">8-12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\" width=\"576\">Intermediate-Acting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Methylprednisolone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">18-36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Prednisolone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">18-36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Prednisone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">18-36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Triamcinolone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">18-36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\" width=\"576\">Long-Acting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Betamethasone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">0,6 &#8211; 0,75<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">36-54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"192\">Dexamethasone<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">0,75<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">36-54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Zoorob RJ, Cender D. A different look at corticosteroids. Am Fam Physician. 1998 Aug;58(2):443-50. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/9713398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Created: Apr 5, 2005<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1774,1773,1772,1771,1770,1769,1070,1571,1088],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rheumatology","tag-glucocorticoides","tag-glucocorticoids","tag-potencia","tag-potencies","tag-relativa","tag-relative","tag-rheumatology","tag-sistemica","tag-systemic"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}