Study type

Study topic

DiseaseĀ /health condition

Study type

Non-interventional study
Non-interventional study

Scope of the study

Disease epidemiology

Data collection methods

Secondary data collection

Non-interventional study design

Other

Non-interventional study design, other

Historical study describing the baseline data of a cohort of severe asthma patients
Study drug and medical condition

Medical condition to be studied

Asthma
Population studied

Short description of the study population

Severe asthma patients aged 18 years or older who received treatment according to GINA step 5 ot uncontrolled at Step 4. Uncontrolled is defined as having severe asthma symptoms or frequent exacerbations.

Age groups

Adults (18 to < 46 years)
Adults (46 to < 65 years)
Adults (65 to < 75 years)
Adults (75 to < 85 years)
Adults (85 years and over)

Special population of interest

Other

Special population of interest, other

Asthma patients

Estimated number of subjects

4990
Study design details

Main study objective

The primary objective of this study is to describe the global severe asthma population using aggregate demographic and clinical measures such as healthcare resource utilisation, blood test measurements, comorbidities, etc.The secondary objective is to descriptively compare the distribution of demogr

Outcomes

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the global severe asthma population, Descriptive comparison of baseline and clinical characteristics of severe asthma population across countries

Data analysis plan

Descriptive statistics will be computed for all demographics and clinical variables for the patient population as categorical variables, and count and percentage of non-missing observations will be reported for each category.Country or region (group) comparison will be examined with contingency tables. Frequencies and 95% confidence intervals will be shown for each characteristic and group difference will be tested for statistical significance via chi-square test for comparison of counts. Statistical significance will be defined as p <0.05.
Documents
Results tables
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