[PDF] Top 20 An evaluation of early medication use for COPD: a population-based cohort study

... dispensed COPD medications after diagnosis, ...the study period, use of short-acting bronchodilators as first medications declined from ...the use of ICS as a first medication increased ... See full document

... This study was performed in accordance with Swiss laws (Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings ...of study design and realization, studies only using fully anonymized health data were not subject to ... See full document

... MARKO study will be used to test the psychometric characteristics of the MARKO question- naire; to evaluate discriminative power of the MARKO questionnaire together with COPD-6™ measurements be- tween ... See full document

... entire study period, children prenatally exposed to APs had 7% more total GP contacts than unexposed children after adjustments for covariates: IRR: ...AP medication was associ- ated with more GP visits and ... See full document

... a cohort study in the 5 ABS areas and 15 matched comparison sites (n=2885), beginning in pregnancy in 2017 and ending in 2024 when the child is age 7, with a separate cross-sectional baseline survey in ... See full document

... antibiotic use prior to admission, the 30- day and 90- day HRs for mortality were ...prednisolone use prior to admission and ...nisolone use prior to ... See full document

... clinical, cohort study of COPD patients ’ use of a mobile telehealth based (mHealth) application and how individually determined alerts in oxygen saturation levels, pulse rate and ... See full document

... had COPD assessment test score $10 or modified Medical Research Council score $2 (~79% patients), and #1 exacerbation in the past 1 year (~80% ...high use of inhaled corticosteroid-containing regimens in ... See full document

... between medication adher- ence and stroke, we adjusted for the following potential confounders: age, sex, income, region, Charlson Comor- bidity Index (CCI), metabolic syndrome, family history of stroke, smoking, ... See full document

... for COPD patients and the reference popula- ...reference population minus the observed average income in the COPD population where sick leave and early retirement were taken into ... See full document

... of use of a specific drug, or class of drugs until a given day during the follow up ...refilled early and completed the first prescription before starting the ...combination use is common for DMARDs, ... See full document

... young cohort (born in 1950/1952) and 14% in the older cohort (born in ...our study is based on self-reported data, prevalence of periodontal disease is possibly underestimated for older ... See full document

... this study was to describe the total Swedish COPD population which had attended secondary in-patient or out–patient care with respect to medication, comorbidi- ties, and COPD burden, ... See full document

... The study is limited by the fact that we relied on the patients ’ answers, which were not veri fi ed by direct obser- vation of their drug ...or study nurses, possibly compromising the patient ’ s ...the ... See full document

... for COPD (J43-J44, except J430); and COPD medication use at least twice per ...year. COPD medications include long-acting muscarinic antagonist, long-acting beta-2 agonist (LABA), ... See full document

... The use of corticosteroids is an indisputable risk factor for ...control study of 500 patients with respiratory diseases) [13] nor Niewoehner et ...in COPD), found statistical significant differences ... See full document

... whole study cohort was examined by standard life-table ...between study groups using the Kaplan–Meier non-parametric ...the study is included among the mandatory activities of the Regione ... See full document

... of medication adherence, mean PDC and the proportion of patients achieving a clinically signi fi cant level of adherence (PDC ≥ 80%) were statistically signi fi cantly higher in the UMEC/VI cohort compared ... See full document

... The study herein is strengthened by our population-based nested case–control design, utilizing a large, representative ...other medication (ie, metformin) prescribed before the index date, and ... See full document

... clinical evaluation of study participants, Véronic Tremblay from the body composition analysis platform of the Institut Universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec for ensuring standardization ... See full document