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. 2022 Mar 15;42(4):319–331. doi: 10.1007/s40261-022-01120-2

Table 3.

Prevalence of use of respiratory medications within 12 months before the index date among new users of aclidinium, aclidinium/formoterol and other COPD medications: patients with COPD aged 40 years or older

Data source and comedication Aclidinium, % Aclidinium/
formoterol, %
Tiotropium, % Other LAMA, % LAMA/LABA, % LABA, % LABA/ICS, %
CPRD, UK N = 4307 N = 1942 N = 16,891 N = 11,437 N = 6504 N = 21,458 N = 3549
 Aclidinium 5.7 16.9 3.1 5.5 5.4 3.7 3.9
 Aclidinium/formoterol 2.2 0.3 0.5 0.9 3.0 1.2 0.9
 Tiotropium 40.3 43.7 27.1 45.5 44.8 36.5 37.3
 Other LAMA 6.4 7.6 3.4 1.8 16.7 4.7 6.7
 LAMA/LABA 1.7 7.6 1.5 5.1 0.2 3.3 2.0
 LABA 5.2 13.9 5.1 4.8 13.5 8.9 18.7
 LABA/ICS 60.6 38.4 50.3 59.3 35.8 34.4 21.5
 SABA 83.3 84.4 77.4 84.1 81.3 79.8 81.2
 Oral corticosteroids 49.8 40.9 44.1 48.2 41.8 45.0 36.8
 Mucolytics 15.3 13.3 11.4 14.6 13.4 10.5 7.5
 Antihistamines 15.0 13.0 14.4 13.2 11.9 14.6 11.5
 ICS 7.8 7.8 9.7 7.4 7.4 18.9 16.6
 SAMA 7.2 2.9 6.1 4.3 4.3 4.8 5.3
 Cough and cold preparations 7.8 7.4 8.2 7.0 7.1 8.1 7.2
 Xanthines 4.3 2.7 3.6 4.5 2.6 2.8 1.7
National Health Databases, Denmark N = 1575 N = 1490 N = 24,229 N = 3567 N = 22,369 N = 31,130 N = 11,443
 Aclidinium 17.4 14.0 1.6 2.8 1.6 1.5 1.3
 Aclidinium/formoterol 1.8 0 0.5 0.9 1.0 0.5 0.5
 Tiotropium 27.3 36.4 33.7 27.8 48.1 35.5 36.4
 Other LAMA 4.6 3.6 2.0 8.6 4.7 1.8 2.3
 LAMA/LABA 8.3 23.3 8.3 15.3 4.2 8.4 8.5
 LABA 12.6 19.5 12.1 17.6 22.0 13.2 24.9
 LABA/ICS 62.5 42.1 51.1 56.0 42.8 39.7 30.1
 SABA 60.4 57.4 53.1 57.7 55.6 51.4 47.9
 Oral corticosteroids 37.6 36.0 33.0 38.7 35.4 30.6 27.5
 Mucolytics 5.2 4.6 4.4 3.9 4.2 3.9 3.5
 Antihistamines 15.9 12.6 11.9 12.6 10.6 13.3 12.1
 ICS 11.9 14.6 10.8 12.8 11.4 15.2 16.4
 SAMA 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5
 Cough and cold preparations 11.1 12.8 10.4 10.4 10.3 11.1 11.0
 Xanthines 1.5 0.9 1.2 1.3 1.0 1.1 0.9
GePaRD, Germany N = 8567 N = 9243 N = 29,468 N = 5135 N = 18,601 N = 91,164 N = 27,981
 Aclidinium 9.9 22.6 3.8 4.2 5.4 1.7 3.5
 Aclidinium/formoterol 1.2 0.0 0.9 1.0 1.9 0.4 0.7
 Tiotropium 13.8 24.6 12.6 12.6 34.2 8.7 17.7
 Other LAMA 2.6 4.3 2.3 9.0 7.1 1.2 2.3
 LAMA/LABA 3.7 9.8 4.8 6.9 3.4 2.0 4.1
 LABA 17.7 34.4 15.1 16.4 26.0 7.3 16.8
 LABA/ICS 36.4 30.5 38.3 37.3 33.5 20.7 20.5
 SABA 33.7 40.9 34.5 35.2 37.9 25.7 30.8
 Oral corticosteroids 27.8 31.1 30.6 28.8 31.5 21.5 23.9
 Mucolytics 4.8 5.4 4.8 4.4 5.4 3.1 3.7
 Antihistamines 2.9 2.2 3.1 2.6 2.5 3.9 2.9
 ICS 13.1 17.3 11.7 11.8 14.0 11.7 18.2
 SAMA 3.3 4.0 4.0 3.5 4.4 1.6 2.5
 Cough and cold preparations 11.1 10.2 10.3 11.3 10.6 13.5 10.4
 Xanthines 4.5 5.6 5.2 4.9 5.6 2.3 3.2

COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, CPRD Clinical Practice Research Datalink, GePaRD German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database, ICS inhaled corticosteroids, LABA inhaled long-acting beta2-agonist, LAMA long-acting muscarinic antagonists, SABA short-acting beta-2-agonist, SAMA short-acting muscarinic antagonists, UK United Kingdom