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