6. Asthma

Asthma morbidity 6 yrs after an effective asthma self-management programme in a Maori community.

A 6-month Maori community-based asthma self-management programme, involving a "credit card" asthma self-management plan, has previously been shown to be an effective and acceptable system for reducing asthma morbidity. The effectiveness of the asthma self-management programme and participants' self-management behaviour was assessed 6 yrs after the formal end of the programme. Participants were ...

Management of asthma in the child aged under 6 years.

a study of some environmental factors in asthma among children aged 6 months to 6 years in yasuj

introduction & objective: asthma is the commonest cause of being admitted in hospital and missing school among children. it is the commonest chronic disease among them as well. although the disease may cause a lot of deaths and financial loss , it is preventable . findings have revealed the various contributions of environmental factors to the incidence of asthma.this study is an attempt to rec...

Antibiotic exposure by 6 months and asthma and allergy at 6 years: Findings in a cohort of 1,401 US children.

Many studies have reported that antibiotic use may be associated with increased risk of childhood asthma. Respiratory tract infections in small children may be difficult to distinguish from early symptoms of asthma, and studies may have been confounded by "protopathic" bias, where antibiotics are used to treat early symptoms of asthma. These analyses of a cohort including 1,401 US children asse...

Asthma is a Serious Danger

  میزان مرگ و میر آسم طی دهه گذشته بطور چشمگیری تغییر کرده است. با مبتلا کردن ۱۵ میلیون آمریکایی میزان مرگ و میر در سال ۱۹۷۸، به رقم ۱۸۷۲ نفر و ۹ سال بعد، به بیش از ۴۰۰۰ نفر رسید. علت چنین افزایش چشمگیری روشن نیست. علل احتمالی عبارتند از کاهش ظرفیت تنفس، استفاده بیش از حد از داروهای استثنائی و استنباط غلط بیماران و نیز مراکز درمانی نسبت به شدت بیماری است. بررسی دقیق، معالجات مناسب و آموزش به ب...