193
Asthma is not well‐controlled*
worldwide
*Patient perception of control.
Rabe KF, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2004;114:40−47.
7,0
14,1
6,0 6,0
15,3 13,0
18,2
8,0 7,0
18,4 19,0 21,2
12,0
2,0
21,3
50,0
55,3
31,0
26,0
39,1
25,0
34,5
28,0 27,0
28,9
47,0
51,7
35,0
32,0
45,6
54,0
56,1
45,0
34,0
43,5
42,0 36,1
50,0
38,0
36,9
Patients perceiving
good/complete control (%)
100
80
60
40
20
0
Complete control
Well controlled
Severe
Moderate
Mild
Intermittent
Severity of reported symptoms in the last 4 weeks
Asthma may persist for a long time
The Melbourne cohort
A = asthma; MWB = mild wheezy bronchitis; SA = severe asthma; WB = wheezy bronchitis
Phelan PD, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2002;109:189−94.
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
MWB
WB
A
SA
Grouping at recruitment
Persistent asthma
Frequent episodic asthma
Infrequent episodic asthma
No recent asthma
Clinical expression of childhood asthma at age 42 years
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