作者
Samy Suissa, Pierre Ernst, JEAN-FRANCOIS Boivin, RALPH I Horwitz, BRIAN Habbick, Donald Cockroft, Lucie Blais, Mary McNutt, A Sonia Buist, Walter O Spitzer
发表日期
1994/3
期刊
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
卷号
149
期号
3
页码范围
604-610
出版商
American Public Health Association
简介
The association between the use of inhaled beta-agonists and the risk of death and near-death from asthma has previously been reported. It was based on a nested case-control study of 129 cases and 655 control subjects selected from a cohort of 12,301 users of asthma drugs followed during the period 1980 through 1987. In this paper we examine the question of asthma and non-asthma mortality using data from the entire cohort of 12,301 asthmatics. There were 46 asthma and 134 non-asthma deaths in this cohort, for which there were 47,842 person-years of follow-up. The overall rate of asthma death was 9.6 per 10,000 asthmatics per year. This rate varied significantly according to the use of fenoterol, albuterol, or oral corticosteroids in the prior 12 months and the number of asthma hospitalizations in the prior 2 years. The rate decreased significantly, by 0.6 asthma deaths per 10,000 asthmatics per year over …
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