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Asthma is a common childhood disease with significant morbidity. Severe asthma accounts for just 4-6% of patients, but this group is more difficult to treat and is responsible for up to 40% of asthma expenses. The relationship between asthma severity and control is not well characterized. The main objective of this study was to determine impact of asthma severity on asthma control over time. This was a three year, prospective observational cohort study at a tertiary care children's hospital. Results were compared over time and between patients with severe and non-severe persistent asthma. Intervention included therapy based on severity and control, accompanied by a NAEPP (EPR-3) guidelines based structured asthma education program. The sample included 471 children referred from primary care offices with the diagnosis of persistent asthma, mean age 6.4 ± 2.4 years. Forty-one children (8.7%) had severe persistent asthma and 430 (91.3%) children had non-severe persistent asthma (mild-moderate persistent). Our sample size decreased over the three-year period and the number of patients completing the third year were 176 (38%) and among them 20 (11.4%) had severe asthma. At the initial v

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Author

Sheikh, Shahid I.; Ryan-Wenger, Nancy A.; Pitts, Judy; Nemastil, Christopher J.; Palacios, Sabrina

Publisher

Informa plc; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Marcel Dekker Inc.; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0277-0903)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)