Objective: To analyze asthma management plan practices for children with asthma in the United States considering race and other demographic and person-level characteristics. Methods: Univariate/Bivariate/Multivariate analysis was performed to examine asthma management plan physician recommendations among children in the United States utilizing secondary data analysis of the 2002 and 2003 Nation...

allergic rhinitis (ar) is one of the most common allergic disorders of child¬hood. in order to determine the frequency of ar among school-age children, a cross-sectional study was performed. one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two children (931 boys and 1001 girls), aged 7-18 years, from 30 systematic randomly selected schools of tehran, the capital of iran, were investigated in this study. s...

Asthma in children is associated with significant morbidity. Children severe asthma are at increased risk for adverse outcomes including medication-related side effects, life-threatening exacerbations, and impaired quality of life. In the study, an asthmatic child a recent cold, received general anesthesia emergency surgery centered on sevoflurane, corticosteroids ketamine. The purpose this stu...

Background Children with asthma most often have associated allergy, and peanut allergy with asthma is more common in children whose parents have asthma. It is not clear how common peanut allergy is among these children. The St. John’s cohort, India has found 6.2% peanut sensitivity children whose mothers have asthma. Children are at greater risk for severe life threatening reactions and hospita...

Background Cough variant Asthma (CVA) is defined as chronic cough without wheezing, and may be precursor of typical asthma. Thus, the diagnosis of CVA and early intervention can partly inhibit asthma progression.This study aimed to evaluate the role of spirometry in diagniosis of Cough variant Asthma in Iranian Children. Materials and Methods This descriptive observational study included a tota...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and compare the efficiency of general and disease-specific life quality scales in children with asthma. METHODS Children with asthma, and their parents completed the Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT), Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ), Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL), and also underwent spirometry. RESULTS 82 children (55 males)...

We appreciate the interest of Dr. Joseph and colleagues in our recent article in CHEST (January 2004)1 on ethnicity and skin test reactivity to allergens among children with asthma. We thank them for bringing their article on racial differences in physiologic parameters related to asthma2 to the attention of the readers of CHEST. We would like to point out that the results of our recent study a...

BACKGROUND In pre-school children a diagnosis of asthma is not easily made and only a minority of wheezing children will develop persistent atopic asthma. According to the general consensus a diagnosis of asthma becomes more certain with increasing age. Therefore the congruence between asthma medication use and doctor-diagnosed asthma is expected to increase with age. The aim of this study is t...

abstract: introduction: asthma is a common disorder that affects children. only a limited number of studies have investigated the effect of asthma on dental caries. the purpose of this study was to determine the dental caries status in children with bronchial asthma. methods and materials: in this crossectional study, 75 asthmatic and 75 non asthmatic children who were matched according to age ...