Table 2

Spearman correlations between findings and symptoms at 3 years of age and the purchase of asthma medication (n=50)

Findings at 3 years	Budesonide mg^*	p Value^†	Salbutamol mg^*	p Value^†
Abnormal lung function^‡	0.169	0.291	0.104	0.516
Skin prick test positive	−0.231	0.11	−0.254	0.079
Symptoms during third year of life
Ongoing wheeze	0.461	0.001	0.292	0.04
Ongoing cough/dyspnoea	−0.06	0.678	0.116	0.422
Ongoing airway symptoms	0.513	<0.001	0.498	<0.001

Bold denotes p<0.05.
↵* Purchase of inhaled budesonide or salbutamol during third year of life is expressed in mg.
↵† Significance was tested by the Mann–Whitney U test.
↵‡ Abnormal lung function at 3 years of age defined as respiratory resistance >1.65 SD of predicted or respiratory reactance <1.65 SD of predicted.