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. 2020 Mar 19;20:67. doi: 10.1186/s12890-020-1107-0

Table 4.

Proportion of participants with at least one prescription for the listed classes of medicine

Medication ILA No ILA P-value
Inhalation therapy 72 (22%) 316 (19%) 0.009
Antibiotic therapy 277 (83%) 1337 (81%) 0.002
Prednisolone 27 (8%) 130 (8%) 0.63
Proton pump inhibitors 111 (33%) 482 (29%) 0.07
Antithrombotic therapy 98 (30%) 361 (22%) 0.35
Antihypertensive therapy 77 (23%) 348 (21%) 0.09
Loop diuretics 27 (8%) 79 (5%) 0.008
Lipid lowering therapy 108 (33%) 517 (31%) 0.64
Antidiabetic therapy 75 (23%) 335 (20%) 0.86

ILA interstitial lung abnormalities

P-values based on negative binomial regression of the number of prescriptions, adjusted for age, sex, BMI and pack-years