There was an increase in mechanical ventilation use over this time period which might reflect a more aggressive approach to management of status asthmaticus in children. Nationwide, hospital charges increased by 26%, which was driven by a rise in the hospital charges per discharge....
Data from more than 10,500 children at 46 research sites was included in the research. Each had at least one residential address from birth and a parent or caregiver who reported the child’s diagnosis of asthma by a physician. The investigators found that differences in the incidence...
milder cases of asthma, which would have been ignored a few decades ago, now get attention and treatment. While I suspect this may influence the rise inasthma prevalence, I am skeptical that it could account for most of the change. Many children with asthma...
Ho, MHK Wong, WHS Lee, TL Chow, WC Lee, SL Lau, YL 2010-09-25T23:21:43Z 2010-09-25T23:21:43Z 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/10722/106581 eng 5th Guangdong - Hong Kong Paediatric Exchange Meeting, HK, 24 July 2004 Asthma Readmission Rates of Hong Kong Children Conference_Paper 9016...
Poorer Neighborhoods Linked to Higher Asthma Rates in Kids THURSDAY, Aug. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When factoring in why children get asthma, a child's neighborhood may be important to consider. New researchfinds that living in a neighborhood during early childhood that has better access ...
The prevalence of asthma in children was found to have decreased in low-income countries, but increased in lower-middle income countries, according to the latest phase of the largest face-to-face health survey ever conducted, published in The Lancet.
摘要: The prevalence of asthma among homeless children in New York City is approximately 40 percent, which is six times the national rate for children, according to an article in the March issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....
rates for asthma exacerbations doubled and prescriptions for asthma bronchodilator medications saw a 2.28-fold increase in September. Children were also significantly more likely to make asthma-related visits to their primary care providers at the start of the school year. Kids aged 2 to 5 years ...
OBJECTIVE: To update reports of increases in the rates of admission to hospital and death from asthma among children and young adults in Canada during the 1970s by examining data for the 1980s. DESIGN: Age-standardized rates were calculated from data for people less than 35 years of age at...
2 The high use of emergency medical care among low-income, minority children as a primary treatment for asthma is well established.3 Although higher rates of asthma are found among African American and other minority children,4 neither disease severity nor age of the child (or the combination)...