Table 3.
Prescribed daily dose of controller medication at cohort entry by asthma severity--prescriptions with defined dosage information for survey cohort
| Asthma severity classification | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermittent (n = 346) | Mild (n = 159) | Moderate (n = 71) | Severe (n = 11) | Missing (n = 48) | |
| Total no. prescriptions | 351 | 164 | 75 | 13 | 51 |
| Missing | 7 (2.0%) | 5 (3.0%) | 1(1.3%) | 0 | 3 (5.9%) |
| Beclometasone, no. | 267 | 123 | 59 | 10 | 35 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 261 (126) | 230 (112) | 258 (107) | 230 (95) | 269 (149) |
| Budesonide, no. | 33 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 218 (101) | 364 (229) | 350 (100) | 300 (141) | 400 (346) |
| Fluticasone, no. | 19 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 216 (75) | 150 (54) | 167 (58) | 100 | 200 |
| Montelukast, no. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 5 (0) | 5 (1) | 4 | -- | 5 (1) |
| Salmeterol, no. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 88 (25) | 50 | 100 | -- | 100 |
| FDC Budesonide | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 1600 | 267 (116) | 400 | -- | 333 (116) |
| FDC-Formoterol | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 48 | 16 (7) | 24 | -- | 20 (7) |
| FDC-Fluticasone | 3 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 400 (173) | 180 (42) | 240 (152) | -- | 294 (232) |
| FDC-Salmeterol | 3 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| Mean dose (SD) | 100 (0) | 90 (21) | 90 (22) | -- | 94 (25) |
FDC = fixed-dose combination
Doses are actual doses as prescribed (μg/d).