Table 3

Incidence of asthma and allergic disease-related ED presentations (per 10 000 person-years) from 2018 to 2023

Year	Asthma and allergic disease-related ED presentations
	Sex*		Age (years)
	Female	Male	0–4	5–14	15–29	30–44	45–59	60+
2018	101.2	78.2	281.6	111.9	99.0	75.0	64.5	47.9
2019	116.7	89.4	262.6	147.8	119.0	77.5	82.5	55.4
2020	105.4	80.7	208.9	105.0	108.9	98.3	80.5	44.7
2021	123.6	97.2	240.7	134.2	138.5	100.1	95.3	57.0
2022	111.9	86.9	222.3	134.2	135.6	84.2	74.5	46.3
2023	96.6	76.9	208.2	133.0	97.4	76.6	60.9	44.5
IRR (95% CI)	0.99 (0.95, 1.04)	1.001 (0.951, 1.053)	0.94 (0.91, 0.97)	1.02 (0.97, 1.06)	1.02 (0.97, 1.06)	1.01 (0.96, 1.06)	0.98 (0.93, 1.04)	0.98 (0.91, 1.05)
P value	0.824	0.974	<0.001	0.320	0.432	0.700	0.710	0.587

*Intersex is not included in this table, as no cases of asthma or allergic disease were reported, as shown in table 1.
ED, emergency department; IRR, incidence rate ratio.