Asthma and the use of CNS depressants: Gender differences

Michele C. Hindi-Alexander; Yvonne K. Scherer; Donald A. Opila; Yow Wu Bill Wu; Bonnie U. Bullough; Mark J. Nicolich; Elliott Middleton

doi:10.3109/02770909209048940

Asthma and the use of CNS depressants: Gender differences

Michele C. Hindi-Alexander
, Yvonne K. Scherer
, Donald A. Opila
, Yow Wu Bill Wu
, Bonnie U. Bullough
, Mark J. Nicolich
, Elliott Middleton

School of Nursing

University at Buffalo

ExxonMobil
SUNY Buffalo
School of Nursing

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	259-264
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Asthma
Volume	29
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/02770909209048940
State	Published - 1992

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