Study of the incidence and prevalence of children bronchial asthma in a Romanian town.
The incidence of bronchial asthma was investigated in a population of 4,486 schoolchildren aged 6 to 14 years from Rîmnicu Vîlcea, a Romanian town in the meridional sub-Carpathian zone of the country. The incidence of "probable asthma" was found to be 2.45% and that of confirmed asthma 1.62%. These percentages are among the highest ever encountered in Romania, in both children and adults. A family history of atopy was observed in 42.3% of the children and of asthma in 28.7%. Such big figures have never been found in adults in Romania.
D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012383:Romania