The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence, severity and risk factors for atopic dermatitis in Korean pre-school children as determined by dermatological examination vs questionnaire survey. A total of 6,453 pre-school children from 59 kindergartens and 14 day-care centres were evaluated. Parents responded to an International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)-based ...

BACKGROUND A number of inflammatory diseases, including familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), have been shown to be driven by a strongly dominated Th1 response, whereas the pathogenesis of atopic diseases is associated with a Th2 response. OBJECTIVE Because dominance of interferon gamma has the potential of inhibiting Th2 type responses-that is, development of allergic disorders, to investigate...

BACKGROUND Asthma is an important childhood disease. Recent surveys of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) suggest that the prevalence of asthma is increasing but these surveys do not include any pulmonary tests to confirm the possible diagnosis of asthma. OBJECTIVE To compare bronchodilator reversibility with the albuterol test in symptomatic and asymptomatic...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic studies have shown seasonal variations in responses to the written questionnaire for rhinitis symptoms. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the timing of data collection affected responses to the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire in a Web-based study. METHODS The Web-based ISAAC questionnaires were completed by parents with chi...

The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) uses standardized symptom-based questionnaires to describe the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in children worldwide. Three governorates in the Syrian Arab Republic (Aleppo, Lattakia and Tartous) participated in ISAAC phase 3 in 2001-03. Adolescents in the 13-14 year age group and parents of th...

A recently published article in the Revista de Saúde Pública (Journal of Public Health) reported results from a survey of the prevalence of asthma in schoolchildren using an adapted version of the ISAAC standardized questionnaire. Question 6 (Q6) of the original asthma core module was modified to also include the term “bronchitis,” Have you ever had asthma or bronchitis?. The authors argued tha...

Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the intermediate and high schools in the Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia. The Arabic version of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Children (ISAAC) questionnaire tool was distributed to 568 students in the rural area and 556 students in the urban area. The factors such as lifetime, 12 months, and the severity prevalenc...