Airway symptoms and atopy in young children prescribed asthma medications: A large‐scale cohort study

Diagnosing asthma and deciding treatment are difficult in young children. An inappropriate and too high prescription rate of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is suggested, but how airway symptoms are associated with prescriptions of asthma medication is less known. We studied how strongly wheeze, lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), and atopic diseases are associated with dispensing of asthma medications during early childhood. We used data...