Gender-Specific Differences in Prevalence
In a study involving 3115 Swiss adolescents, Ödling et al. reported that asthma tended to be more common among girls compared to boys, however boys with asthma had more often a doctor’s diagnosis.12 Uncontrolled asthma was more common among girls than boys, who also were more often dispensed with high daily doses ICS compared to girls. Subjects with persistent early onset asthma had more often a doctor’s diagnosis compared to adolescent‐onset asthma. The authors highlighted the clinical relevance of monitoring female adolescents with uncontrolled asthma.12Gender-specific prevalence of rhinitis and asthma as single and multimorbid diseases during puberty was examined in six European population-based birth cohorts of MeDALL. Male predominance in prevalence before puberty and the “gender-shift” towards females after puberty onset were strongest in multimorbid patients who had rhinitis and asthma concurrently.13