NORdic Dataset for aSThmA Research (NORDSTAR)
– a Nordic research collaboration platform
NORDSTAR is a unique severe asthma research initiative between Nordic key opinion leaders on asthma from the Nordic Severe Asthma Network, data analytic experts from Quantify and the pharmaceutical industry -Sanofi, AstraZeneca and GSK.
NORDSTAR consists of a multinational population-based asthma data set spanning ~50 million person-years of follow-up. NORDSTAR includes all asthma patients in four countries.
The ambition of NORDSTAR is to generate real-world evidence on severe asthma and thereby improving everyday lives of asthma patients.
The data include:
- Demographics
- Socioeconomics
- Prescribed drugs
- Health care resource use
- Mortality
- Laboratory data
Current asthma patient counts
TOTAL:
Denmark:
Finland:
Norway:
Sweden:
3,272,928
770,502
232,713
853,450
1,416,263