Figure 2From: Attitudes and actions of asthma patients on regular maintenance therapy: the INSPIRE studyThe number of worsenings experienced by patients who had had ≥ 1 worsening in the last year, by level of Asthma Control Questionnaire-defined asthma control. A worsening was defined as an occasion when asthma symptoms had become bothersome or hindering in the past year. The mean number of worsenings for the total population was 11.8/year.Back to article page