Background Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common
diseases mostly treated in primary care. However, the usage patterns of drugs for obstructive …

Background There is a gap between prescribed asthma medication and diagnosed asthma
in children and adolescents. However, few studies have explored this issue among adults …

Purpose To examine the occurrence of chronic diseases and antimicrobial treatment in an
asthma population 8–29 years old, compared with the general population. Methods In this …

Objective. To assess the extent to which drugs were used by individuals found to have
asthma in a population survey. To assess the relative influence of the proportion of patients …

Aims To explore the trend in prescribing of drugs classified within the R03 therapeutic
pharmacological subgroup (drugs for obstructive airway diseases) of the Anatomical …

Purpose To explore the possibility of using dispensed volumes asthma/COPD drugs as a
proxy for the combined prevalence of asthma plus COPD. Methods The proportions of the …

Background: Asthma patients using high cumulative doses of oral corticosteroids (OCSs) are
at risk of serious adverse events and are increasingly being treated with steroid-sparing …

Introduction Asthma medication was increasingly used during the second part of the past
century. There are few detailed data from population studies on use of asthma medication …

Aims To describe the utilization of antiasthmatic drugs in Sweden and to explore regional
variations in drug utilization and adherence to guidelines for rational drug prescribing of …

The article presents the study regarding utilization of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and
asthma control among adults with asthma in Denmark. The study employs longitudinal …