作者
Hye-Rim Kang, Hyun Jin Song, Jin Hyun Nam, Sung-Hyun Hong, So-Young Yang, SangEun Ju, Sang Won Lee, Tae-Bum Kim, Hye-Lin Kim, Eui-Kyung Lee
发表日期
2018/3/1
期刊
BMJ open
卷号
8
期号
3
页码范围
e020825
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Objectives
Asthma exacerbation, associated with many risks factors, can reflect management failure. However, little is known about how risk factors are associated with exacerbation, according to asthma severity. We aimed to investigate differences in risk factors in patients with different asthma severity and evaluate whether risk factors differed between frequent exacerbators and patients with single exacerbation.
Design
Nationwide population-based observational study.
Setting
Korean National Sample Cohort database.
Participants
We included 22 130 adults with asthma diagnoses more than twice (ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth revision) codes J45 and J46) and one prescription for asthma medication from 2010 to 2011.
Outcome measures
Asthma exacerbation was defined as having a corticosteroid (CS) burst characterised by a prescription of high-dose oral CS for ≥3 days or one systemic …
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