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Reconcilable Differences: Asthma Severity
Both individual (proximate) and population (contextual) measures of SES were used. Proximate measures were based on self-reported annual household income ($20,000, $20,000 to $50,000, and >$50,000, expressed in Canadian dollars), education (years of postsecondary education and highest level completed), and the receipt of social assistance. Exploratory analysis accounting for family size based on the low-income […]
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Reconcilable Differences: Materials and Methods
Patient Recruitment and Study Sample We performed a cross-sectional study of a sample of 202 English-speaking asthmatic patients between 19 years and 50 years of age residing in the Greater Vancouver Regional District of British Columbia (BC), Canada. One hundred nine subjects were recruited from a random sample of SA P-agonist users identified using the […]
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Reconcilable Differences
An association between the excessive use of short-acting (SA) P-agonists and greater asthma-related morbidity and mortality has been identified, raising concerns over their safety. Specifically, asthmatic patients receiving excessive amounts of SA P-agonist experience more frequent emergency department visits, have a greater likelihood of a hospital admission and are at greater risk of having a […]