Environmental and occupational respiratory diseases – 1040. Associations between asthma and bronchial hyper-responsivness with allergy and atopy phenotypes in urban black South African teenagers
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Background Epidemiological studies in South Africa show increasing prevalence rates of asthma and allergic sensitisation in both urban and rural Black African communities, and narrowing of the urban-rural gradient. There is a paucity of current data on bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) in urban Black African children, associations between asthma and BHR and the relationship between BHR, allergen sensitisation and other atopic diseases.
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Associations between asthma and bronchial hyper-responsiveness with allergy and atopy phenotypes in urban black South African teenagers.
OBJECTIVES To determine asthma and allergy phenotypes in unselected urban black teenagers and to associate bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR) with asthma, other atopic diseases and allergen sensitisation. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 211 urban high-school black children of Xhosa ethnicity. Modified ISAAC questionnaires regarding asthma, eczema and rhinitis were administered. ...
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