Asthma control

Over half of UK asthma patients believe that their condition prevents them from achieving what they want in life, according to a new survey sponsored by AstraZeneca.

Nearly half of the 200 UK respondents said they always took their medicine as prescribed. Of those who did not, 47 per cent said they did not believe their asthma was serious enough to need their controller inhaler all the time, and 40 per cent said they tended not to use it when they felt well.