Table 6

Raw attack percentages for presence and absence of each of recent symptoms, poor compliance and poor inhaler technique by age group, plus estimated adjusted odds ratio with 99% confidence intervals

		Age group (years)
		<5	5–15	16–44	45–74	75+
Recent symptoms
Early morning	Absent	35	19	17	18	23
	Present	48	27	28	29	33
	Odds ratio	1.28	1.1	1.06	1.19	1.24
	99% CI	0.65 to 2.50	0.81 to 1.51	0.79 to 1.42	0.90 to 1.59	0.57 to 2.69
Night	Absent	36	19	15	19	23
	Present	44	30	33	33	39
	Odds ratio	0.94	1.53^6-150	2.16^6-150	1.69^6-150	1.86
	99% CI	0.49 to 1.82	1.13 to 2.08	1.63 to 2.87	1.29 to 2.22	0.92 to 3.78
Exercise	Absent	34	18	16	17	21
	Present	47	26	26	27	31
	Odds ratio	1.52	1.33^6-150	1.19	1.18	0.88
	99% CI	0.82 to 2.84	1.01 to 1.76	0.90 to 1.57	0.88 to 1.58	0.34 to 2.32
Poor compliance		Absent	42	22	21	24	29
		Present	37	21	28	27	30
		Odds ratio	0.82	0.82	1.18	1.32	1.35
		99% CI	0.35 to 1.90	0.56 to 1.18	0.86 to 1.61	0.92 to 1.89	0.50 to 3.67
Poor inhaler technique		Absent	43	22	21	25	31
		Present	35	24	31	21	21
		Odds ratio	0.8	1.17	1.63^6-150	0.75	0.68
		99% CI	0.32 to 2.00	0.70 to 1.95	1.06 to 2.52	0.48 to 1.17	0.24 to 1.94

↵6-150 There is strong evidence that the corresponding odds ratio is different from 1 as the confidence interval does not include 1.