title: [Respiratory symptoms in a pediatric population].
abstract: With the aim of determining the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and rhinitis among adolescents in Spain, we sent a brief questionnaire about respiratory symptoms to all school children (9,644) in the sixth, seventh and eight grades in our city. We identified a symptomatic group (SG) consisting of adolescents who reported having had one or more of the following three signs within the past 12 months: a) waking with a feeling of stuffiness; b) experiencing an asthma attack, or c) taking medication for asthma. Returned questionnaires accounted for 74.4% of those distributed. The following symptoms were reported: wheezing by 13.4%, nighttime oppression by 8.4%, stuffiness at night by 7.3%, nighttime coughing by 24.8%, asthma attack by 4.5%, taking asthma medication by 6.1% and seasonal rhinitis by 15.4%. The proportion of symptomatic children was 11.6% (833). All symptoms studied that were not required for inclusion in SG correlated highly with that group (p < 0.0001). Neither age nor sex were related to inclusion.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pereira Vega
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Maldonado Pérez
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sánchez Ramos
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grávalos Guzmán
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pujol de la Llave
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gómez Entrena
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012135:Respiratory Sounds; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
vernacular_title: Síntomas respiratorios en población infantil.