Respiratory medicine
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Respiratory medicine · Sep 1996
Comparative StudyComparison of males and females presenting with acute asthma to the emergency department.
To determine the female:male ratio and compare the severity of asthma between female and male patients presenting with acute asthma to the authors' emergency department (ED). ⋯ In the authors' institution there is a high female:male ratio among patients presenting with acute asthma, and males tend to present later or with more severe disease. These findings need to be confirmed by a prospective study looking at all the factors that may contribute to asthma patients presenting to the ED.