Change in the symptom profile treated as asthma – two cross-sectional studies twenty years apart

Respiratory Research

Table 3 Prevalence (%) of respiratory symptoms, attack of asthma, asthma medication use and smoking by age groups, sex and among all subjects

	Year	Age groups, years					P-value**	Sex		P-value***	All
	Year	20–24	25–29	30–34	35–39	40–44	P-value**	Women	Men	P-value***	All
Breathlessness while wheezing	1993/94	7.5	5.9	7.1	8.5	10.7	0.052	7.6	7.8	0.831	7.7
Breathlessness while wheezing	2014/15	6.9	4.1	6.6	9.7	7.5	0.213	5.9	8.6	0.107	6.9
Wheeze without cold	1993/94	13.1	11.9	11.9	15.0	11.6	0.968	10.1	15.6	<0.001	12.7
Wheeze without cold	2014/15	11.0	5.6*	7.8	8.7*	11.9	0.317	6.2*	13.3	<0.001	8.9*
Waking with chest tightness	1993/94	11.1	11.6	13.9	14.4	19.8	<0.001	16.4	10.4	<0.001	13.5
Waking with chest tightness	2014/15	12.5	11.9	9.1	16.2	18.1	0.038	14.7	11.3	0.134	13.5
Woken by attack of breathlessness	1993/94	5.6	6.9	8.2	9.7	10.8	0.001	8.8	6.7	0.048	7.8
Woken by attack of breathlessness	2014/15	8.3	9.3	6.5	11.4	13.7	0.052	9.1	11.1*	0.313	9.8
Woken by attack of cough	1993/94	37.7	41.2	45.1	46.6	42.4	0.011	44.2	39.6	0.021	42.0
Woken by attack of cough	2014/15	33.6	37.1	35.2*	34.1*	43.4	0.129	40.1	31.6*	0.008	36.9*
Attack of asthma	1993/94	2.2	1.6	1.1	1.7	2.7	0.873	1.8	1.9	0.927	1.9
Attack of asthma	2014/15	4.8	3.6	4.3*	2.7	2.5	0.213	2.8	4.7*	0.127	3.5*
Current asthma medication	1993/94	0.9	0.7	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.414	0.9	0.4	0.180	0.7
Current asthma medication	2014/15	4.8*	0.5	3.0*	1.1	2.5	0.395	1.9	3.1*	0.231	2.3*
Nasal allergies	1993/94	16.3	17.6	17.1	20.2	18.3	0.199	17.0	18.4	0.376	17.7
Nasal allergies	2014/15	26.5*	21.7	22.2	23.1	27.5*	0.597	25.5*	21.6	0.171	24.0*
Asthma-related symptoms	1993/94	5.3	4.3	4.0	6.1	6.4	0.376	4.6	5.6	0.293	5.1
Asthma-related symptoms	2014/15	7.1	3.2	4.2	6.4	6.4	0.600	3.4	8.5	0.001	5.3
Asthma-related disorder	1993/94	2.2	1.8	1.1	2.2	2.7	0.721	2.0	2.0	0.958	2.0
Asthma-related disorder	2014/15	5.5*	3.6	5.2*	2.7	4.0	0.461	3.7*	5.0*	0.339	4.2*

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