Women, patients with severe asthma, and patients attended by primary care physicians, are at higher risk of suffering from poorly controlled asthma

The aim of this exploratory study was to identify those factors associated with asthma control assessed according to GINA Guidelines. 809 (56% female) subjects with asthma were recruited consecutively from both specialist and primary care centres. Asthma control was assessed over a 4-week follow-up...

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Veröffentlicht in:Primary care respiratory journal 2009-12, Vol.18 (4), p.294-299
Hauptverfasser: Badiola, Carlos, Badiella, Llorenc, Plaza, Vicente, Prieto, Luis, Molina, Jesús, Villa, José Ramón, Cimas, Enrique
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Zusammenfassung:The aim of this exploratory study was to identify those factors associated with asthma control assessed according to GINA Guidelines. 809 (56% female) subjects with asthma were recruited consecutively from both specialist and primary care centres. Asthma control was assessed over a 4-week follow-up period using a composite measure. A multivariate analysis was performed, in which asthma control was included as the dependent variable and several explanatory variables were included as independent variables. Analysis performed on the whole population rendered gender (p=0.003), the type of physician (p
ISSN:1471-4418
1475-1534
DOI:10.4104/pcrj.2009.00027