A patient with severe shoulder pain resulting from inflammation is not responding to treatment with naproxen. You staed a course of treatment with oral dexamethasone. What is the basis that the glucocoicoid will be more effective as an anti-inflammatory agent
Glucocoicoids inhibit both prostaglandin production and inflammatory cells. Glucocoicoids inhibit biosynthesis of both COX-1 and COX-2. Glucocoicoids will reduce the edema in the inflamed area Glucocoicoids are more potent inhibitors of cyclooxygenase than naproxen.