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Table 2 Percentage of children and adolescents identified as new onset or chronic asthmatics and their anti-asthma therapy

From: Anti-asthma medication prescribing to children in the Lombardy Region of Italy: chronic versus new users

DRUG CLASSES

NEW ONSET

CHRONIC ASTHMA

 

8,058

10,712

Rescue Medications

  

SABA

5,023 (62)

7,121 (56)

SABA exclusivelya

1,933 (24)

1,138 (11)

Systemic steroids

391 (5)

919 (9)

Controller Medications

  

ICS

4,876 (44)

8,569 (56)

aloneb

2,661 (33)

3,176 (30)

ICS+LABA

1,884(7)

4,579 (19)

ICS+LTRA

267 (3)

1,181 (11)

ICS+Othersc

902 (11)

2,848 (27)

no ICS

610 (8)

643 (6)

LABA

130 (2)

82 (0.3)

  1. a without other anti-asthmatic prescriptions
  2. b without other controller drug prescriptions
  3. c Others = not ICS, not SABA, not LABA, not LTRA
  4. data are expressed as number of subjects (% of each population)
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine

ISSN: 1471-2466

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