Asthma is a chronic disease that has a significant impact on quality of life and is particularly important in children and adolescents, in part due to the
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...
Asthma in homeless children is also likely to be severe and substantially undertreated. There is substantial evidence that in the United States there are excessively high rates of asthma among children of color, especially among those who live in urban medically underserved communities and whose ...
In outlining the development and course of asthma in children it is important to emphasize that, although asthma is a common illness, it is not a reportable one, and therefore its true incidence is unknown and can only be estimated indirectly. Our impressions of its frequency come from a vari...
of the American population, or about 8 million people, have or have had asthma at some time in their lives. More than one-third of these are children under age 15. Figures for asthma incidence worldwide vary from 5% to 10% depending on the country and degree of urbanization, although ...
The Efficacy of Asthma Case Management in an Urban School District in Reducing School Absences and Hospitalizations for Asthma Pediatric asthma rates are reaching epidemic proportions, adversely affecting children's quality of life, educational potential, and health care costs, esp... M Levy,B Heffner...
Researchers Oluwafemi Oluwole and Joshua Lawson have shed light on findings from previous studies that indicated rural children are less likely to have asthma. Without investigating diagnostic explanations, those studies suggested that early-life exposur
The samples were drawn from three independent U.S. studies that focused on Puerto Rican and African American children, who have higher rates of asthma and are more likely to die from the disease, researchers said. The nasal swab analysis accurately revealed the specific subtype of each ...
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 ...
In these countries, the reported prevalence rates ranged from 2.79% to 3.89%. In Egypt many studies on asthma have been performed in the paediatric age groups but very few addressed the adult population and were not representative of the whole country [20]. In some areas, there is limited ...