Characteristics and treatment regimens across ERS SHARP severe asthma registries
Little is known about the characteristics and treatments of patients with severe asthma across Europe, but both are likely to vary. This is the first study in the European Respiratory Society Severe Heterogeneous Asthma Research collaboration, Patient-centred (SHARP) Clinical Research Collaboration and it is designed to explore these variations. Therefore, we aimed to compare characteristics of patients in European severe asthma registries and treatments before starting biologicals.
This was a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of aggregated data from 11 national severe asthma registries that joined SHARP with established patient databases.
Analysis of data from 3236 patients showed many differences in characteristics and lifestyle factors. Current smokers ranged from 0% (Poland and Sweden) to 9.5% (Belgium), mean body mass index ranged from 26.2 (Italy) to 30.6 kg·m–2 (the UK) and the largest difference in mean pre-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s % predicted was 20.9% (the Netherlands versus Hungary). Before starting biologicals patients were treated differently between countries: mean inhaled corticosteroid dose ranged from 700 to 1335 µg·day–1 between those from Slovenia versus Poland when starting anti-interleukin (IL)-5 antibody and from 772 to 1344 µg·day–1 in those starting anti-IgE (Slovenia versus Spain). Maintenance oral corticosteroid use ranged from 21.0% (Belgium) to 63.0% (...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: van Bragt, J. J. M. H., Adcock, I. M., Bel, E. H. D., Braunstahl, G.-J., ten Brinke, A., Busby, J., Canonica, G. W., Cao, H., Chung, K. F., Csoma, Z., Dahlen, B., Davin, E., Hansen, S., Heffler, E., Horvath, I., Korn, S., Kots, M., Kuna, P., Kwon, N., Lou Tags: Asthma and allergy Original Articles: Asthma Source Type: research
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