Objective: To determine if supplemental estrogens should be used as steroid-sparing agents
in asthmatic women. Design: Case series. Setting: Ambulatory care, community hospital.
Patients: Volunteer sample of three steroid-dependent asthmatic women. Intervention:
Addition of conjugated estrogens to existing asthma treatment. Main outcome measure:
Ability to decrease oral steroid requirement. Results: The mean age of the women was
55±11 years; two were former smokers (cases 1 and 2) and one was a nonsmoker (case 3) …