Prevalence, characteristics and management of frequently exacerbating asthma patients: an observational study in Sweden (PACEHR)

What is it about?

In a Swedish primary care asthma population, 1.8% of the patients experienced frequent exacerbations yearly during the three-year observational period. Patients with frequent exacerbations were characterized by greater age, female predominance, high eosinophilic and neutrophilic count and high prevalence of comorbidities compared to non-exacerbators. Remarkably, the percentage of patients visiting health care in the group with frequent exacerbations decreased during the observational period, indicating that health care lack the efficiency to identity and optimally manage this patient group.

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