Table 3.
Children, adolescents and adults with asthma only with registrations in the Swedish National Airway Registrar (SNAR) in 2019 including both new patient registrations and follow-up visits for existing registry patients in primary and secondary/tertiary care
| Children (<12 yr) with asthma |
Adolescents (12–17 yr) with asthma |
Adults (>17 yr) with Asthma |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls n = 4543 | Boys n = 7275 | p-value | Girls n = 2998 | Boys n = 3547 | p-value | Women n = 35,842 | Men n = 21,502 | p-value | |
| Spirometry, n (%) | 1913 (42.1) | 3123 (42.9) | 0.390 | 2265 (75.6) | 2797 (78.9) | 0.002 | 20,316 (56.7) | 12,896 (60.0) | <0.001 |
| Investigation of allergy, n (%) | 613 (13.5) | 1131 (15.5) | 0.002 | 788 (26.3) | 994 (28.0) | 0.120 | 5471 (15.3) | 3300 (15.3) | 0.800 |
| Current smoking (%)a | 53 (2.8) | 26 (1.1) | <0.001 | 2718 (10.0) | 1491 (8.9) | <0.001 | |||
| Offered smoking cessation, n (%)b | 17 (32.1) | 4 (15.4) | 0.190 | 1040 (38.3) | 542 (36.4) | 0.230 | |||
| Asthma Control Test (ACT), n (%) | 1571 (34.6) | 2656 (36.5) | 0.035 | 1863 (62.1) | 2396 (67.6) | <0.001 | 15,506 (43.3) | 9846 (45.8) | <0.001 |
| ACT ≤19, n (%)b | 424 (27.0) | 602 (22.7) | 0.001 | 744 (39.9) | 534 (22.3) | <0.001 | 6374 (41.1) | 3307 (33.6) | <0.001 |
| Patient education, n (%) | 1307 (28.8) | 2156 (29.6) | 0.320 | 1453 (48.5) | 1909 (53.8) | <0.001 | 11,510 (32.1) | 7273 (33.8) | <0.001 |
| Written treatment plan, n (%) | 746 (16.4) | 1328 (18.3) | 0.011 | 634 (21.1) | 924 (26.1) | <0.001 | 2181 (6.1) | 1432 (6.7) | 0.006 |
aPercentages calculated for those with complete data on smoking habits.
bPercentages calculated for current smokers and patients with data on ACT, respectively.
P-values for differences between groups. Bold values indicating p-values <0.05.