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Steroids such as prednisolone can reduce inflammation in the lungs but have severe side-effects such as diabetes and osteoporosis.

A team doctor was suspended in March 2018 after Italian police found prednisolone, a substance banned in competition, in his room.

"I last had a flare up about a year ago, and I was on prednisolone for six months. I put on two stone in that time."

Glucocorticoids, a class of corticosteroids, include prednisolone, cortisone and dexamethasone; they are not the same as anabolic steroids, but are more like anti-inflammatories.

The lawyer said that White told police he must have mistakenly picked up the propranolol instead of the prednisolone as the two boxes have similar branding and were side-by-side on the shelf.