Is the increase in allergic respiratory disease caused by a cohort effect?
The results support the notion that the increasing prevalence of allergic respiratory disease is caused by a cohort effect. Thus, changes in lifestyle or environmental factors that occurred around or after 1960 may have contributed to this increase.
Nineteen (44·2%) of the patients reported bleeding complications and some of these were severe. Fifteen of 32 who used miconazole oral gel and four of 8 of those who used nystatin solution were affected. Before use of the antifungal drugs, the mean weekly warfarin dose in the nystatin group was 14·5 mg, and after antifungal drugs, 9 mg, P = 0·038, while the mean international normalized ratio (INR) before antifungal drugs was 2·5 (range 1·9-3·5) and afterwards it was 10·6 (range 4·5-19·3), P = 0·0001. In the miconazole oral gel group the mean weekly warfarin dose was 15·7 mg, and after 10·8 mg, P = 0·008, while the mean INR before antifungal drugs was 2·44 (range 1·92-3·18) and afterwards it was 8·8 (range 4·9-16·9), P < 0·0001.