Objective.—To describe demographic data from a large population of asthmatic patients to define the role of age and sex as risk factors for asthma
According to the Vital Statistics of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, the number of patients who die of asthma has decreased in recent years13; it was approximately 6,000 during the 1980s and early 1990s and 1,454 in 2016. The rate of asthma deaths per 100,000 popu...
Results The association between age and the probability of severe asthma, which was performed by applying a Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoother, revealed an inflection point at age 45 for risk of severe asthma. The probability of severe asthma increased with each year of life until 45 years ...
Study participants were 19–89 years of age. For the study participants who gave permission to use their register data, the FinEsS questionnaire data was combined with comprehensive data provided by Finnish government agencies: Statistics Finland (STAT), The Social Insurance Institution (SII) and ...
Trends in asthma indicators from population surveys (prevalence) and routine statistics (primary care, prescriptions, hospital admissions and mortality) in the UK were reviewed from 1955 to 2004. The prevalence of asthma increased in children by 2 to 3-fold, but may have flattened or even fallen...
Methods We analyzed the cross-sectional data of the NPHS, conducted by Statistics Canada in the period 1996 through 1997. The design and execution of the survey have been detailed elsewhere.3 A total of 173 032 respondents aged 12 years or older who responded to the question about asthma were...
NHANES is a nationally representative, multi-stage, population-based, cross-sectional study carried out by the US National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS). It was designed to assess the health and nutritional status of civilian, non-institutionalised children and adults in the US. Respondents...
FEV1: Forced expiratory volume in 1 second FVC: Forced vital capacity ICU: Intensive care unit NCHS: National Center for Health Statistics NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHIS: National Health Interview Survey OFC: Oral food challenge OIT: Oral immunotherapy ...
This paper identifies a new factor, the age of the housing stock, that affects where high- and low-income neighborhoods are located in U.S. cities. High-in... JK Brueckner,SS Rosenthal - 《Review of Economics & Statistics》 被引量: 300发表: 2009年 Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and ...
read the full text, 95 of which were eligible to be included in the study, and other studies were excluded for reasons such as inappropriate age range, conducting the study in countries located outside the EMRO region, inappropriate study design and lack of reporting required statistics (Fig. ...