Asthma and the Use of CNS Depressants: Gender Differences
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Asthma
- Vol. 29 (4) , 259-264
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02770909209048940
Abstract
A retrospective 5-year random sample of 196 charts of patients with asthma was obtained from two hospital-based outpatient clinics. The chart reviews showed that age and severity-matched males and females with asthma were prescribed antihistamines in similar proportions; however, 16.8% of the females were prescribed a tranquilizer or sedative compared with 8.5% of the males. The females (8.7%) also were prescribed a combination of these drugs, or two tranquilizers; none of the males were prescribed more than one CMS depressant. Results showed that, in this study, females were prescribed CMS depressants three times as often as males.Keywords
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