In the retrospective study, patients without known coronary artery disease who had shortness of breath were four times more likely to suffer death from a cardiac cause than asymptomatic patients and twice as likely as patients who had chest pain that is considered to be typical cardiac pain.
A steroid is an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific configuration.Examples include the dietary lipid cholesterol, the sex hormones estradiol and testosterone and the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone. steroid is an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific configuration.
Overview. Steroids are a general class of agents that all have the steroid ring in common. The steroid ring is comprised of three 6-carbon rings and one 5-carbon ring joined, of which cholesterol is the most basic form and, indeed, the precursor.ost of these center on the anabolic nature of these drugs and their use in people with cachexia, produced by such disease states as HIV, hepatic and renal failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), some types of cancer, and burns, as well as during postoperative recovery.