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Article: UK survey shows unmet needs in asthma treatment may affect health outcomes.
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- Pharma Marketletter
- Article date:
- December 12, 2005
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Results from the first-ever global quantitative research on unmet needs in asthma treatment highlight issues that may affect health outcomes, including medication side effects, patient education and physician-patient communication. The Global Asthma Physician and Patient Survey, a 16-country research study, was conducted by Harris Interactive to explore the global effect of asthma, a disease that is growing in prevalence by approximately 50% every decade. The results were unveiled in London on the eve of the British Thoracic Society's annual winter meeting.
"The UK has one of the highest prevalence rates of asthma in Europe and more than half a million people ...