OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine factors associated with use of emergency departments by African American, Latino, and White children aged 1-11 years in California. METHODS I conducted a secondary analysis of parental reports of emergency department use by children with asthma (defined as doctor's diagnosis of asthma). An overall sample of 1313 children with asthma was id...

INTRODUCTION: The existence of combined pathology in children with such a common chronic disease as bronchial asthma requires special organizational approaches to providing them medical care, taking into account not only clinical, but also and social characteristics. AIM: To study hygienic risk factors comorbid pathology. MATERIALS AND METHODS: pathology, sociological survey their parents was c...

BACKGROUND Asthma and excessive body weight frequently coexist, whereas the exact relationship between the 2 diseases is unknown. OBJECTIVE To study whether asthma combined with excessive body weight has a greater effect on quality of life in children than the separate effects of asthma or excessive body weight alone. METHODS In a cross-sectional design, 1758 school children (age 7-10 years...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to better define the clinical characteristics of severe asthma in both children and adults, and to evaluate the effect of asthma duration on multiple parameters of disease severity. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data on 275 patients (125 children) with severe asthma who were admitted to a tertiary asthma referral center. METHODS Demogr...

BACKGROUND Case definitions for asthma incidence in early life vary between studies using medical records to define disease. This study assessed the impact of different approaches to using medical records on estimates of asthma incidence by age 3 and determined the validity of early-life asthma case definitions in predicting school-age asthma. METHODS Asthma diagnoses and medications by age 3...

BACKGROUND Screening for asthma in children in the community could have advantages at a time when prevalence rates of the condition and associated hospital admission rates are rising. AIM The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of a standard exercise test as a marker of asthma or potential asthma in children, and to examine the relationship between asthma and other respiratory trac...

sthma is a growing problem among all children, but it is greatest among minority children. The second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II)’ of the National Center for Health Statistics found that asthma prevalence rates are significantly higher for black than for white children and for boys than for girls, regardless of whether the definition is (1) ever having asthma di...

BACKGROUND Recent investigations suggested that the trend of childhood asthma has been stabilizing or even reversing in some countries. The observation provides contrast to our experience. Thus, the study aimed to investigate the prevalence and clinical features of asthma in children aged 0-14 years in Qingdao China, determine the changes of childhood asthma in China, and discover evidence that...

asthma and cystic fibrosis (cf) have some identical manifestations. in the present study, the frequency of positive sweat test was assessed in asthmatic children. this cross-sectional study was performed in asthmatic children, who were referred to bahrami children hospital, tehran, during july 2003 to july 2005. sweat test was performed for all children. one hundred and thirty five (95 males an...