Some children with moderate persistent asthma were included, as consecutive patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were allocated to the treatment groups.
All had mild to moderate persistent asthma.
Asthma is classified based on the degree of symptom severity, which can be divided into four categories: mild intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, and severe persistent.
Most patients had moderate or severe COPD, and mild persistent or moderate persistent asthma.
Four clusters were identified (severe persistent, moderate persistent, mild persistent, and fluctuating).
While 31.6% of the mild persistent, 28.6% of the moderate persistent asthma patients were prescribed with oral corticosteroid that was only recommended for severe persistent asthma.
In our survey, only 60.0% of intermittent, 52.3% of the mild persistent, 42.9% of the moderate persistent and 70% of the severe persistent asthma patients were prescribed with ICS.
To determine the prevalence of ibuprofen-sensitive asthma in school-aged children with mild or moderate persistent asthma.
Asthma severity was first classified as intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, or severe persistent using the GINA guidelines[13] that were available at the time of ECRHS-I.
At baseline, asthma severity according to GINA was distributed as intermittent: 40.7%, 31.7% as mild persistent, 14% as moderate persistent, and 13.5% as severe persistent.
