[Epidemiological study of asthma in school age children at Bordeaux. Investigation by questionnaires and functional respiratory examinations by flow-volume curves (author's transl)].
The first results of a survey involving 1950 children from 6 to 12 years old living in Bordeaux are presented here. For 280 of them, who had attacks of asthma or showed other closely related signs, a questionnaire was filled out by the parents. On this basis, the main features of the disease, as well as the ORL bronchial and allergological course, were specified for a representative epidemiological population (with a distinction between actual asthma and disappeared asthma, distribution according to sex and age of the first attack). A functional examination by flow-volume curve for 111 of the children showed, using maximal flow measurement (particularly V 50 and V 25), the existence of modifications of the bronchial paths that were not detected by classical spirometric parameters.
D000367:Age Factors; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008449:Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curves; D012119:Respiration; D012737:Sex Factors
Approche épidémiologique de l'asthme des enfants d'age scolaire à Bordeaux. Etude par questionnaires et examens fonctionnels respiratoires par courbes débit-volume.