Sibship and dispensing patterns of asthma medication in young children-a population-based study.

Elin Dahlén Sara EkbergCecilia LundholmEva Wikström JonssonInger KullBjörn WettermarkCatarina Almqvist

Published in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2019)

Siblings have different dispensing patterns of asthma medications compared with singletons regardless of asthma diagnoses. After including the siblings' asthma medication and compared with control children, the proportion of children with persistent medication increased which may indicate that siblings share asthma medications.

Keyphrases

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
lung function
allergic rhinitis
healthcare
young adults
intellectual disability
adverse drug
cystic fibrosis
air pollution
emergency department