Newly diagnosed asthma in China: initial severity and changes over a 1-year management period.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are no large sample, epidemiological data describing initial asthma severity and change. We used a large health care database to examine asthma severity at initial diagnosis, and the changes in severity over the first year of management.

Methods

The clinical data of patients diagnosed with asthma for the first time were collated from the SuValue electronic medical database. The following inclusion criteria were applied: (I) patients who were 14 years or older at the time of first diagnosis; (II) initial diagnosis occurred between Jan 2001 and Mar 2019; (III) patients were followed up for at least 12 months; (IV) patients had follow-up visits every 3 months. Disease severity at diagnosis and at each follow-up visit, medications prescribed were collated and an

SUBMITTER: Hu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8848387 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature