Sex difference in prescription of asthma drugs is smaller than previously found
| Autor: | G. D. Frost, B D Pethica, Jason Hall, A Penrose, A Tomlin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study business.industry Population General Engineering General Medicine Odds ratio medicine.disease Endocrinology Internal medicine medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medical prescription business education General Environmental Science Demography Asthma |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 319:385-385 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.319.7206.385 |
| Popis: | EDITOR—We were surprised to see the relation between people's sex and, in those with asthma, their likelihood of being prescribed oral steroids, as found by Sexton et al.1 We analysed a larger dataset, as they suggest. We included computerised 1996 RNZCGP data from a consulting population of 201 954 patients (90 214 men and 109 079 women; 2661 sex not recorded). The nature and reliability of the RNZCGP database are well established.2 3 The target patients were in the age band 20-54 years (42 264 men and 55 670 women). Patients were … |
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