One in four asthmatic is not properly treated
Posted on September 15, 2008
Filed Under Asthma |
The Health Insurance has just released a study on the treatment of asthma in France. She mentions one in four people regularly suffer from asthma do not heal properly. Patients who use emergency medicines to treat crises. More than 3.3 million people aged 5 to 44 years were treated with drugs antiasthmatiques last year. Among these, 27% are on a regular basis.The study is carried out with the figures of 2007, on patients aged 5 to 44 years. It shows that 38% of men 20 to 29 years are inadequately controlled asthma, the category of population using mostly emergency treatment for asthma attacks.
Cote reimbursements, health insurance has increased by nearly 60% in less than 7 years, medicines referred to anti-asthmatic, prescribed in asthma and other respiratory diseases.
To improve care for people with asthma, health insurance will shortly send delegates to meet with general practitioners. Questionnaires for patients with asthma will be distributed to assess their breathing difficulties a consultation to another.
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