Table 1.
Demographic and lifestyle characteristics by investigator-classified asthma severity and practice type.
| Demographic and lifestyle characteristics | All (N = 3066)a | Primary care (n = 559) |
Specialists (n = 2498) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigator-classified mild asthma (n = 260) | Investigator-classified moderate-to-severe asthma (n = 299) | All (n = 559) | Investigator-classified mild asthma (n = 289) | Investigator-classified moderate-to-severe asthma (n = 2209) | All (n = 2498) | ||
| Age (years) | |||||||
| Mean (SD) | 51.8 (16.7) | 46.2 (16.8) | 50.1 (16.3) | 48.3 (16.6) | 45.5 (19.9) | 53.5 (15.9) | 52.6 (16.6) |
| Range | 12.0–92.0 | 12.0–81.0 | 15.0–91.0 | 12.0–91.0 | 12.0–88.0 | 12.0–92.0 | 12.0–92.0 |
| Age groups (years) | |||||||
| 12–17 | 87 (2.8) | 24 (9.2) | 3 (1.0) | 27 (4.8) | 40 (13.8) | 20 (0.9) | 60 (2.4) |
| 18–54 | 1515 (49.4) | 137 (52.7) | 180 (60.2) | 317 (56.7) | 141 (48.8) | 1052 (47.6) | 1193 (47.8) |
| ≥55 | 1464 (47.7) | 99 (38.1) | 116 (38.8) | 215 (38.5) | 108 (37.4) | 1137 (51.5) | 1245 (49.8) |
| Sex | |||||||
| Female | 2116 (69.0) | 191 (73.5) | 211 (70.6) | 402 (71.9) | 191 (66.1) | 1516 (68.6) | 1707 (68.3) |
| Male | 950 (31.0) | 69 (26.5) | 88 (29.4) | 157 (28.1) | 98 (33.9) | 693 (31.4) | 791 (31.7) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | |||||||
| Mean (SD) | 26.3 (5.6) | 27.2 (6.0) | 26.5 (6.1) | 26.8 (6.1) | 25.6 (5.7) | 26.3 (5.4) | 26.2 (5.5) |
| Median (min, max) | 25.5 (12.6, 71.3) | 26.5 (12.6, 49.7) | 25.4 (16.6, 52.5) | 25.8 (12.6, 52.5) | 25.0 (14.9, 58.7) | 25.5 (14.2, 71.3) | 25.5 (14.2, 71.3) |
| BMI groupsb(kg/m2) | |||||||
| <18.5 | 127 (4.1) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 18.5–22.9 | 716 (23.4) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 23–24.9 | 521 (17.0) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| ≥25 | 1702 (55.5) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Education level | |||||||
| Not established | 302 (9.8) | 8 (3.1) | 28 (9.4) | 36 (6.4) | 19 (6.6) | 245 (11.1) | 264 (10.6) |
| Primary or secondary school | 1162 (37.9) | 149 (57.3) | 116 (38.8) | 265 (47.4) | 96 (33.2) | 798 (36.1) | 894 (35.8) |
| High school | 675 (22.0) | 51 (19.6) | 51 (17.1) | 102 (18.2) | 90 (31.1) | 481 (21.8) | 571 (22.9) |
| University and/or post-graduate education | 927 (30.2) | 52 (20.0) | 104 (34.8) | 156 (27.9) | 84 (29.1) | 685 (31.0) | 769 (30.8) |
| Healthcare insurance/medication funding | |||||||
| Not reimbursed | 655 (21.4) | 42 (16.2) | 53 (17.7) | 95 (17.0) | 78 (27.0) | 481 (21.8) | 559 (22.4) |
| Partially reimbursed | 775 (25.3) | 17 (6.5) | 107 (35.8) | 124 (22.2) | 78 (27.0) | 568 (25.7) | 646 (25.9) |
| Fully reimbursed | 1469 (47.9) | 194 (74.6) | 118 (39.5) | 312 (55.8) | 127 (43.9) | 1027 (46.5) | 1154 (46.2) |
| Unknown | 167 (5.4) | 8 (3.1) | 28 (9.4) | 36 (6.4) | 19 (6.6) | 245 (11.1) | 264 (10.6) |
| Smoking status | |||||||
| Active smoker | 126 (4.1) | 11 (4.2) | 20 (6.7) | 31 (5.5) | 7 (2.4) | 88 (4.0) | 95 (3.8) |
| Former smoker | 349 (11.4) | 23 (8.8) | 36 (12.0) | 59 (10.6) | 25 (8.7) | 265 (12.0) | 290 (11.6) |
| Never smoker | 2591 (84.5) | 226 (86.9) | 243 (81.3) | 469 (83.9) | 257 (88.9) | 1856 (84.0) | 2113 (84.6) |
| Number of comorbidities | |||||||
| 0 | 981 (32.0) | 94 (36.2) | 112 (37.5) | 206 (36.9) | 103 (35.6) | 670 (30.3) | 773 (30.9) |
| 1–2 | 1508 (49.2) | 126 (48.5) | 111 (37.1) | 237 (42.4) | 147 (50.9) | 1118 (50.6) | 1265 (50.6) |
| 3–4 | 455 (14.8) | 39 (15.0) | 60 (20.1) | 99 (17.7) | 33 (11.4) | 323 (14.6) | 356 (14.3) |
| ≥5 | 122 (4.0) | 1 (0.4) | 16 (5.4) | 17 (3.0) | 6 (2.1) | 98 (4.4) | 104 (4.2) |
BMI, body mass index; max, maximum; min, minimum; NA, not available; SD, standard deviation, WHO, World Health Organization. Data are presented as n (%) unless otherwise specified.
a
Practice type was not recorded for 9 patients.
b
According to Asia-Pacific BMI classification. The Asia-Pacific BMI classification data were available for the broad BMI categories; however, the stratification by practice type was only available as per the WHO classification. Therefore, all fields under practice type are marked as NA