Environmental risk factors Low-income, urban minority youth are disproportionately affected by asthma, such that higher asthma prevalence rates and disease morbidity have been found in children from low socioeconomic (SES) [2, 3] and urban minority families [3, 4]. Prevalence rates indicate that ...
environmental factorsepidemiologyimmunopathogenesisinternational datatime trendsThe incidence, prevalence, and mortality of asthma have increased in children over the past three to four decades, although there has been some decline in the most recent decade. These trends are particularly marked and of ...
The EQ-5D-3 L consists of the EQ-5D descriptive system and the EQ visual analogue scale (EQ VAS). The EQ-5D-3 L instrument and questions on general health, symptoms and treatment of asthma, and lifestyle factors were based on data from follow-ups at 16 and 24 years. Cross-sectional...
Asthma is a common problem that affects more than 25 million Americans, especially children and teens. Rates of asthma have been increasing steadily over the past several decades as well — today one in 12 people has asthma, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, compared to about one in ...
In women who haveasthma exacerbationsduring pregnancy, there have also been associations with longer infant and maternal hospital length of stay; a fivefold increase in rates of maternal pneumonia; transienttachypneaof the termnewborn, especially with male infants; andneonatal hyperbilirubinemiaif mothers...
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
Other people at higher risk of developing asthma include children born to parents with asthma and children with a family history of allergies, which often go hand-in-hand with asthma. Havingeczema, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), or the respiratory infection bronchiolitis early in life, as wel...
Medications used by children with asthma living in the inner city. Pediatrics. 1998;101349- 354Google ScholarCrossref 9. Vollmer WMO'Hollaren MEttinger KM et al. Specialty differences in the management of asthma: a cross-sectional assessment of allergists' patients and generalists' patients in ...
Over the past decades the prevalence of asthma has increased in most parts of the world, and widespread changes in lifestyle and environment have been postulated as the primary cause for this. We examined whether the extent to which genetic and environmental factors influence susceptibility to asthm...
Three papers originated from the GINI (German Infant Intervention Programme) and LISA (Influences of Lifestyle Related Factors on the Immune System and Development of Allergies in Children) birth cohorts in Munich as a part of the TRAPCA project. The paper by Gehring et al was based on 1,756...