BACKGROUND Little is known about the associations between symptoms of asthma, pulmonary function tests, and atopy in developing countries. While asthma in children is often associated with atopy, some studies of wheezing illness have found little or no association, leading to suggestions that there are subgroups of wheezing illness. The ISAAC study recently reported that the prevalence of repor...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the association of asthma-related symptoms with snoring and apnea, and to assess their effects on health-related quality of life (HRQL). DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 10,224 parents and grandparents of students from 14 randomly selected primary schools in city center were asked to answer questionnair...

Asthma in children up to 5 years of age is a disease that diagnosed on the basis clinical symptoms bronchial obstruction, such as: wheezing, cough and shortness breath variable intensity duration, clinically proven reversibility obstruction improvement after chronic use inhaled glucocorticosteroids lack grounds for suspecting causes other than asthma. Treatment childhood asthma graded therapy w...

  Background :Asthma is the most common respiratory disease with an increasing prevalence. On the other hand, obesity is also a challenging disease compromising health in human communities. This study sought to assess the correlation of asthma and body mass index (BMI) in occupational setting.   Methods : This study was conducted in a cable manufacturing company in 2012. A total of 551 workers ...

There is evidence that the incidence and severity of asthma are increasing worldwide, but there are limited data on asthma in Israel. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and severity of asthma and asthma symptoms in 13-14 yr-old schoolchildren in Israel. The self-completed questionnaire used was a modified version of that developed by the International Study of Asthma and Al...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between socioeconomic factors and asthma symptoms. METHODS A total of 6,919 elementary school children in Seoul were enrolled in the study. Data were obtained from a web-based questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was based on the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood core module. The prevalence of wheeze in the past 12 month...

asthma is the most prevalent chronic disease in childhood. to determine the prevalence of asthma and related symptoms in children younger than 5 years, a survey was performed by interviewing mothers of 617 children during spring 2001. the interview comprised of two parts. the first part contained children characteristics including age, sex, maternal age at the child birth, child history of atop...

Cord blood IgE has previously been studied as a possible predictor of asthma and allergic diseases. Results from different studies have been contradictory, and most have focused on high-risk infants and early infancy. Few studies have followed their study population into adulthood. This study assessed whether cord blood IgE levels and a family history of asthma were associated with, and could p...

BACKGROUND Childhood asthma morbidity and mortality in New Orleans, Louisiana, is among the highest in the nation. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina created an environmental disaster that led to high levels of mold and other allergens and disrupted health care for children with asthma. OBJECTIVES We implemented a unique hybrid asthma counselor and environmental intervention based on successfu...

Background Asthma is the most common chronic airway disease in children. We aimed to investigate the effect of vitamin C supplementation on improving the asthma symptoms in children. Materials and Methods: In a double-blind clinical trial: sixty 2-12-year-old children hospitalized with the diagnosis of asthma attack in the Ghaem an...