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Table 4 Proportion of participants with at least one prescription for the listed classes of medicine

From: Increased respiratory morbidity in individuals with interstitial lung abnormalities

Medication

ILA

No ILA

P-value

Inhalation therapy

72 (22%)

316 (19%)

0.009

Antibiotic therapy

277 (83%)

1337 (81%)

0.002

Prednisolone

27 (8%)

130 (8%)

0.63

Proton pump inhibitors

111 (33%)

482 (29%)

0.07

Antithrombotic therapy

98 (30%)

361 (22%)

0.35

Antihypertensive therapy

77 (23%)

348 (21%)

0.09

Loop diuretics

27 (8%)

79 (5%)

0.008

Lipid lowering therapy

108 (33%)

517 (31%)

0.64

Antidiabetic therapy

75 (23%)

335 (20%)

0.86

  1. ILA interstitial lung abnormalities
  2. P-values based on negative binomial regression of the number of prescriptions, adjusted for age, sex, BMI and pack-years